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Front Row: Jess Thom on Beckett's Not I, Disbelieved women in fiction, Deep Throat Choir

Jess Thom performs Not I, Disbelieved women in fiction, Deep Throat Choir

02/03/2018

Jess Thom on Beckett's Not I, Disbelieved women in fiction, Deep Throat Choir

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Jess Thom on Beckett's Not I, Disbelieved women in fiction, Deep Throat Choir

Jess Thom on why Beckett's Not I speaks to her so strongly as someone with Tourette's.

Jess Thom on why Beckett's Not I speaks to her so strongly as someone with Tourette's. And why are so many thrillers about women who are not believed?

Jess Thom is a founding member of Touretteshero, a theatre company that celebrates the inherent creativity and humour in Tourette's. She is taking on Samuel Beckett's Not I, a rapidly delivered monologue spoken by a character called Mouth. Jess explains why the text captures her own experience of living with Tourette's and her mission to make theatre more accessible. 

"Gaslighting" is a term that sprang from Patrick Hamilton's play Gas Light written 80 years ago, in which a husband attempts to convince his wife she is going mad so that she is not believed by others. It's a trope that's picked up in contemporary thrillers such as Girl on A Train and The Woman in The Window. Novelist Stephanie Merritt and writer and critic Lisa Appignanesi discuss its dramatic appeal. 

Deep Throat are a thirty-strong all-female choir who blend their voices with percussion to produce a unique sound. The founder Luisa Gerstein and choir member Tanya Auclair discuss how they developed their style and their collaborations.

Presenter: Morgan Quaintance
Producer: Hannah Robins.

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