![]() Along with Katrina Duncan, they have constituted the directorial board of the (still extant) company since the early 1990s. Amongst the founding members were three who were to remain actively involved throughout its history: Chris Bowler (until her death in May 2014), Gillian Hanna, and Mary McCusker. Reacting to what they saw as the marginal status and stereotypical depiction of women in both conventional and political theatre of the time, its founding members decided to create a radical alternative that would provide serious opportunities for women as actors, writers, directors, designers and technicians. The company's name referred ironically to the title of John Knox's sixteenth-century pamphlet, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women. ![]() No productions have been mounted since 1993, when financial support from the Arts Council of Great Britain was discontinued. Performer-led and collectively organised, its work figures prominently in studies of feminist theatre in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s. ![]() ![]() Monstrous Regiment went on to produce and perform 30 major shows, in which the main focus was on women's lives and experiences. ![]() Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company is a British feminist theatre company established in 1975. ![]()
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