Evento

No Bad Women

Presented by Women Against Rape & English Collective of Prostitutes

Written & directed by Lesley Delmenico

Sold-out pilot shows in 2015 had great reviews: "Challenging . . . uncompromising, everything theatre should be." Tribune

Q & A: after shows on 1st, 8th & 12th November with one of the orginal complainants and others involved in the trial.

Sign language interpreted show on 12 November - one night only.

A rape trial which makes legal history. Its 1995. Two sex workers have been raped at knifepoint while separately visiting a client's house in suburbia. One is a mum, a tattooed biker and former teacher; the other writes porn to support a disabled hus-band. They report the attacks. Despite continuing threats, the Crown Prosecution Service closes the case, claiming insufficient evidence - sex workers won't be believed by a jury.

Outraged but scared, the women come to the English Collective of Prostitutes and Women Against Rape. The groups assemble a legal team to take on the rapist and prevent him attacking other women. This was the first ever private prosecution for rape in England and Wales. The play is a dramatisation of this bold and imaginative fight for justice, drawn from the trial transcript. But can women who do sex work win?

If you can afford to, please donate at our crowdfunding page https://gofundme.com/no-bad-women