WELL BEHAVED WOMEN hits Belvoir
Belvoir is excited to bring Well-Behaved Women, an empowering female-led musical to the stage from the 28th September – 3rd November.
How would Cleopatra, Mary Magdalene, Virginia Woolf, Frida Kahlo, Julia Gillard, Billie Jean King, and Malala Yousafzai sound if we heard them sing their thoughts?
Well-Behaved Women, by Carmel Dean is a musical feast where legendary women are brought to life through powerful and often hilarious songs, that celebrate the ways in which their behaviour helped them make history.
After all, as Pulitzer-Prize winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said:
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
Director Blazey Best:
Imagine if some of the most astonishing women throughout history could hop up on stage and sing you a song. The first time I heard the songs I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t heard them before, they felt like classic.
Originally devised as a concert for the famous Joe’s Pub in New York, Michelle Guthrie Presents enlisted Blazey Best to envisage a theatrical musical which was presented as a proof of concept in 2021 before being brought to Belvoir for a mainstage season.
The stellar and original cast includes Ursula Yovich (Barbara and the Campdogs), Zahra Newman (Dracula, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill), Elenoa Rokobaro (Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Caroline or Change) and Stefanie Caccamo (Into the Woods, Once).
Well-Behaved Women is one not to be missed.
Season Details
Venue: Upstairs Theatre| Belvoir St Theatre
Date: : 28 Sept – 3 Nov 2024
For more information click HERE
It seems that anything revolutionary and threatening to the status quo and patriarchy has been ignored, forgotten or omitted. Julia Gillard, really? I recall her redefining marriage as a union of a man and a women. That is great behaviour at the service of the patriarchy! Where is Emma Goldman?