Breaking Silence: Women and Trauma

The second episode of our podcast mini-series, Breaking
Silence, features writers and practitioners who are
addressing the silencing of women and giving voice to female
experience through artistic mediums. 


Dash Arts' Artistic Director Josephine Burton
speaks to theatre-maker Lucy Dear (All in Your
Head); screenwriter and playwright Rebecca
Lenkiewicz (Ida; Her Naked Skin); theatre director
Athina Kasiou (A Thousand Ships); and art
therapist Diane Waller. Topics range from hidden
stories of domestic abuse and coercive control, to the forgotten
experiences of suffragettes, to the marginalised women of
classical literature, to the power of theatre to give voice to
those that have been silenced. 


Through conversations with a range of acclaimed speakers across a
range of disciplines, Breaking Silence explores ways in which
voices, stories and cultures have been silenced both in current
times and recent history, when silence can be a positive force
for change, and what role the arts can play in breaking
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Content warning: this episode contains
conversation about domestic abuse and mention of suicide, so
please take care while listening.


Links


Lucy Dear’s play All In Your Head:
http://www.lucydear.com/#all-in-your-head 


Project Sezon, Athina Kasiou’s theatre company:
https://www.project-season.org/ 


Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s film Ida:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/ida-a-film-masterpiece 


Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s play Her Naked Skin:
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2008/aug/08/hernakedskinagutreaction


Music credits


Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi


Outro music: On the Edge of your Spring by Sasha Ilyukevich


Photo credit


A still taken from the 2013 film Ida, co-written by Rebecca
Lenkiewicz.


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