HURRIED STEPS is a hard hitting, powerful text written by Dacia Maraini and translated by Sharon Wood.
Written by Dacia Maraini to support stop violence against women and girls campaigns, the hour long play stimulates a discussion between a panel of experts and the audience to probe the reasons behind worldwide violence against women & girls.
"It gives you an international insight into the whole issue" - Audience feedback, Sydney
Hurried Steps by Dacia Maraini
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HURRIED STEPS by the award-winning and renowned Italian playwright, Dacia Maraini is a powerful tool for raising awareness of violence against women and girls.
The edition does not include the latest Kubra story which is about Female genital mutilation (FGM/C) story. The entire Kubra text is available in Staging Violence Against Women and Girls: Plays and Interviews, edited by Daniela Cavallero, Luciana d’Arcangelo and Claire Kennedy, published by Bloomsbury. The book also includes an interview with New Shoes Theatre’s Artistic Director, Nicolette Kay.
The Kubra story was written for our Hurried Steps performances in Sydney and performed with grant support from the British Council & the Arts Council of Great Britain.
You can buy the play in The Calder Bookshop, 51 The Cut, London SE1 8LF
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This HURRIED STEPS publication, beautifully designed by Camberwell Press for practical use in performance, it features large print, a preface by Dacia Maraini and a foreword by Bianca Jagger.
Eugenia Caruso, Raquel Cassidy, Emma Dennis-Edwards, Souad Faress & Peter Landi - Hurried Steps book launch, The Bush Theatre Library
Trigger Warning: The play contains descriptions of various forms of violence against women and girls.
"The people who are very ignorant, I would have told them to come and watch - open their eyes to the world.”
Audience member aged 13 yrs.