Collage
of press cuttings. 'A MIND-EXPANDING PRODUCTION'
All images from 'Holocaust' - an all-woman theatrical
troupe (directed by Jane Arden). The troupe performs
in 'A New Communion for Prophets, Freaks and Witches'
at the Open Space Theatre, London, and Edinburgh Festival,
Scotland. I got involved with the woman's theatre group
because I was longing for some kind of artistic community
beyond the cult of the individual artist. I wanted to
participate in the liberation of the feminine, but through
creative expression rather than political feminism.
We evolved the theatrical performances from intense
personal workshops and went on to make a movie 'The
Other side of the Underneath' in 1971, in which I both
acted and art directed.
"Penny Slinger, a sculptress, acted for the first
time in the first film to be written and directed
by Jane Arden, 'The Other Side of the Underneath',
it opens at the Paris Pullman on Thursday, after causing
something of a stir at the Edinburgh and London film
Festivals…
"At 25 Penny Slinger's a girl of many parts, most
of them painfully private. Making them public as a
sculptor, as a writer and as an actress is what she
feels bound to do. 'Creatively, I suppose I've found
all my material within my own skin. One way or another
for the past years I have been performing an autobiography.'"
Philip Oakes - Sunday Times 1973.
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