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Standard Issue Podcast

Emma Dennis-Edwards is Not Your Superwoman

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In her play Not Your Superwoman, Emma Dennis-Edwards tackles the sometimes tricksy relationship between mums and daughters.  She chats to our Mick about complex intergenerational dynamics, the expectations on mums, intergenerational trauma, the shifting nature of ‘motherland’, and how exciting it is to work with talent as big as Letitia Wright and Golda Rosheuvel. Not Your Superwoman is at the Bush Theatre, London, until November 1, but is currently fully sold out. Fingers firmly crossed for a transfer.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:17.5

All right, Smashes, welcome to this Tuesday's standard issue.

0:22.5

We've already had Jen's belt in chat with football commentator Vicky Sparks

0:27.0

about to set Disney Plus's UEFA Women's Champions League coverage alight,

0:31.9

not least by getting Oliver Putnam on the pitch, sort of.

0:36.1

Still to come, Hannah and Jen bring you their take on the news

0:39.0

in Thursday's Bush Telegraph and on Friday, Hannah's chatting to Catherine Clark about her new book

0:44.3

and Radio 4 series, A History of England in 25 poems. But what's Mickey been up to, I hear you

0:50.9

ask, and I am Mickey so I can answer that with this episode, in which I

0:55.6

catch up with playwright Emma Dennis Edwards to find out about Not Your Superwoman, her family

1:00.7

drama focusing on the complex intergenerational dynamics of three women, mum, daughter and

1:06.7

grandma, and currently enjoying a sold-out run at London's Bush Theatre. Fingers firmly crossed

1:12.9

it gets a transfer because I was lucky enough to see it and it is warm, funny, sharp and not

1:18.5

scared to tell the truth about mums and daughters. Emma and I chat about all of that, about the

1:24.3

expectations on mum's intergenerational trauma, the shifting nature of

1:28.8

motherland, and how exciting it is to work with talent as big as Letitia Wright and Golda Rorschvel.

1:35.0

As ever, there's extra interview for members of our Patreon 5 pound and above tier, so if you've not

1:40.2

already got involved, please do have a look at patreon.com forward slash standard issue.

1:46.8

Welcome to standard issue writer and performer Emma Dennis Edwards.

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