Free Thinking - Feminism in Theatre
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BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2014
⏱️ 45 minutes
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American novelist Jonathan Lethem discusses the singer Pete Seeger, whose death has been announced today. Martin Creed's artworks have included a room full of balloons and a room containing only a light switch. Matthew Sweet considers how Creed questions what are the limits to art, talking to Creed himself, art critic Charlotte Mullins and comedian Waen Shepherd. And, as their latest plays open on the London stage, Free Thinking brings together the director and writer Carrie Cracknell and the writer Abi Morgan to consider feminism in theatre.
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| 0:40.9 | Hello and welcome to free thinking. |
| 0:43.1 | Tonight, we're going all the way to the top. |
| 0:47.9 | It's going on. |
| 0:54.1 | An elevating work by the Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed, newly installed at the Haywood Gallery in London. |
| 1:01.4 | Later, he'll lead you and me through a glass-walled chamber half filled with balloons as we discuss failure, phoniness, and how to explore your artistic limits. |
| 1:12.0 | You'll also hear from the playwrights Abby Morgan and Carrie Cracknell on feminist theatre in the age of Robin Thick. |
| 1:19.4 | First, though, we pay tribute to a voice of Radical America, one that fell silent yesterday. |
| 1:25.3 | They sang his songs on civil rights marches in the 1960s |
| 1:28.4 | and at demonstrations against the Vietnam War, |
| 1:31.5 | songs that define the voice of protest |
| 1:33.7 | in what we now think of as the age of protest. |
| 1:36.6 | We shall overcome, we shall overcome |
| 1:47.0 | We shall overcome. |
| 1:50.0 | We shall overcome |
| 1:53.0 | someday. |
| 1:59.0 | Pete Seeger singing We Shall Overcome. |
| 2:02.5 | He didn't write the song, but he brought it to the notice of a generation, |
| 2:06.4 | along with the ones he did write, |
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