Alice Birch

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again

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You are expected to behave…


Use the right words.


Act appropriately.


Don’t break the rules.


Just behave.

This play is not well behaved.

Alice Birch examines the language, behaviour and forces that shape women in the 21st century and asks what’s stopping us from doing something truly radical to change them.
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57 printed pages
Original publication
2016
Publication year
2016
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Quotes

  • Karen Kaurhas quoted8 years ago
    because I choose it I choose it I choose it
    Constantly.
    This World Can Never Attack Me Again.
    Because I Choose it. Over and Again and Again and
    Over.
  • Karen Kaurhas quoted8 years ago
    head, pull your knickers down and want it and they can invade you no longer.
    Get wet.
    Get wet.
    Get wetter.
    Turn on. Turn on. Turn on.
    And want it. And want it. Constantly. Constantly. Constantly want it. Remove the edges of your body. Choose. My body is no battleground, there is no longer a line of defense – I Am Open. There are borders here no more. This body this land is unattackable, unprotected, unconquerable, unclaimable, no different from air around it or bodies coming in because there Is no in to come into, you cannot overpower it because I have given it you cannot rape it because I choose it you cannot take because I give it and be
  • Karen Kaurhas quoted8 years ago
    body a bouquet of shell bone. I have eaten only animal fat until I rolled, bubbled and whaled and came quite close to popping. Fortify. Make my edges clear. Where I begin and air stops is my motherland. No? I have sat under sun lamps until my skin crackled, spat and blistered. I have pulled my hair out with my fingers and my teeth out with pliers. I have wrapped myself in clingfilm, foil, clothes, make-up and barbed wire.
    No fortification strong enough.
    Nothing to stop them wanting to come in.
    Lie down.
    Lie down and become available. Constantly. Want to be entered. Constantly. It cannot be an Invasion, if you want it. They Cannot Invade if you Want It. Open your legs and throw your dress over your

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