By Catrin Evans, Rachel Jury and the Cast
How do you escape a violent lover? And then how do you escape the shadow of that violent love?
Working with community actors and young people, My Fabulous Tartan Frock brings domestic violence into the spotlight via a dramatic examination of self image exploring the remarkable collective journey of women who have experienced domestic abuse.
Frock is our attempt to capture moments, emotions, fragmented images of these experiences ... it is our attempt to confront the issue that society, far too often, looks to the abused woman, not the abuser, to take responsibility for their actions. This show is a question mark ... It asks, why is domestic abuse still happening on such a massive scale, why are women still systematically failed by society and how are we, the people living on this planet, in this city, right now going to prevent this being somebody else’s or our own future?
Dates: December 2009
Venue: The Arches, Glasgow
Since playing at The Arches the company have been invited to perform extracts of My Fabulous Tartan Frock across Glasgow as part of a campaign to raise awareness about domestic abuse and to encourage women to seek assistance in escaping abusive relationships.
