Beth
07-03-09, 02:03 PM
I went to the theatre last night! :bigeyes:
and I had a lovely time, I saw "Can any mother help?" at the west Yokshire Playhouse, performed by Foursight Theatre.
i found it moving and humourous and quite touching and uncomfortable in places.
well worth seeing, its taken from a book written about the CCC aka Cooperative Correspondence Club!
heres a little bit about it :)
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Can any mother help me? I live a very lonely life as I have no near neighbours. I cannot afford to buy a wireless. I adore reading, but with no library am very limited with books…I know it is bad to brood and breed hard thoughts and resentment. Can any reader suggest an occupation that will intrigue me and exclude ‘thinking’ and cost nothing!’
Women from all over the country and from all walks of life and all socio-economic backgrounds wrote back expressing similar frustrations. They were full of ideas and opinions but, since they belonged to a generation of women whose choices were limited by the expectation of becoming housewives and mothers, had nowhere to express them. So they decided to start a private magazine.
The Cooperative Correspondence Club – or CCC as it quickly became known – was a place for these women to describe the subjects close to their hearts: the pain and elation of childbirth, the difficulties during wartime, or the struggles and comedies of daily routine. It also became a clandestine platform for the women to voice their personal theories on subjects as provocative as the female orgasm, racism, and wartime politics.
None of the women anticipated the way that the magazine would come to play such an important part in their lives. The letters contributed over five decades by the extraordinary group of wives and mothers who made up the CCC provide an intimate and moving collection of personal stories, and, above all, a portrait of inseparable friendships
the play is going to be all over the country and finishes in May if you want to go :)
http://www.foursighttheatre.co.uk/The-Cooperative-Correspondence-Club/
and I had a lovely time, I saw "Can any mother help?" at the west Yokshire Playhouse, performed by Foursight Theatre.
i found it moving and humourous and quite touching and uncomfortable in places.
well worth seeing, its taken from a book written about the CCC aka Cooperative Correspondence Club!
heres a little bit about it :)
‘
Can any mother help me? I live a very lonely life as I have no near neighbours. I cannot afford to buy a wireless. I adore reading, but with no library am very limited with books…I know it is bad to brood and breed hard thoughts and resentment. Can any reader suggest an occupation that will intrigue me and exclude ‘thinking’ and cost nothing!’
Women from all over the country and from all walks of life and all socio-economic backgrounds wrote back expressing similar frustrations. They were full of ideas and opinions but, since they belonged to a generation of women whose choices were limited by the expectation of becoming housewives and mothers, had nowhere to express them. So they decided to start a private magazine.
The Cooperative Correspondence Club – or CCC as it quickly became known – was a place for these women to describe the subjects close to their hearts: the pain and elation of childbirth, the difficulties during wartime, or the struggles and comedies of daily routine. It also became a clandestine platform for the women to voice their personal theories on subjects as provocative as the female orgasm, racism, and wartime politics.
None of the women anticipated the way that the magazine would come to play such an important part in their lives. The letters contributed over five decades by the extraordinary group of wives and mothers who made up the CCC provide an intimate and moving collection of personal stories, and, above all, a portrait of inseparable friendships
the play is going to be all over the country and finishes in May if you want to go :)
http://www.foursighttheatre.co.uk/The-Cooperative-Correspondence-Club/