Much of Unfinished Histories work has traced the emergence, development and work of Women’s Theatre active in British alternative theatre from 1968-88.
In 2024 we are celebrating 50 Years since the first Women’s Theatre festival in Britain, as part of FYFFI. For more information about FYFFI: Fifty Years of the Fight for Inclusion please go here.
For further details of events marking the 50th anniversary of the first Women’s Theatre Festival go here.
For resources on Black Women’s Theatre in the 1970s and 80s you can find an essay and Bibliography and there is more information on companies and individuals on this page
Companies identified to date:
Alice’s Cabaret
Bag and Baggage
Beavers
Bemarro Sisters
Black Mime Theatre Women’s Troupe
Box 3
Burnt Bridges
Cakes and Ale Theatre Company
Camouflage
Changing Women Theatre Group
Charabanc
Clapperclaw
The Chuffinelles
Coventry Lesbian Theatre Group
Dorothy Talk
Female Trouble
Focus Theatre Company
Flippin Wimmin
Freerange Theatre Company
Hairy Marys
Hard Corps (formerly Gauche)
Hardware Theatre Company
Holocaust
Imani-Faith
Intimate Strangers
Keeping Mum
Ladies and Gentlemen
Lip Service
Little Women
Loose Change
Magdalena Project
Major Diversion
The Millies
The MisFits
Mother Hen Theatre Company
Mrs. Worthington’s Daughter’s Daughters
Munirah Theatre Company
Neti-Neti
Options Ltd
Parker and Klein
Parrot Fashion Theatre
Pretty Disgusting Things
Proud Cow
Punching Judies
Radical Actresses Guild
Raving Beauties
Red Rag
Red Stockings
ReSisters
Rubber Jennies
Salt Theatre Company
Sidewalk Theatre Company
Scarlet Harlets (later Scarlet Theatre)
Second Wave Young Women’s Arts Project
Sensible Footwear
Shameful Practice
Sphinx
Spiderwoman [US]
Split Britches [US]
Strip Search
Taboo
Tattycoram
Theatre Rotto
Three Women Mime
Trouble and Strife
Wayward Women
Women’s Comedy Workshop
The Woman’s Company
Women’s Theatre Group (later Sphinx) [NB not to be confused with Sphinx listed above]
Women’s Playhouse Trust
Women’s Street Theatre Group