Gloucestershire Female Creatives

Gloucestershire Female Creatives is a recently-founded collective of female artists of all backgrounds, artistic disciplines and stages of development.

They are seeking to establish a mutual support-network for women creatives across Gloucestershire, and to create platforms and opportunities to share and showcase their work.

The 5th Stroud Theatre Festival is their first official engagement, presenting eight performers/artists in five short and varied performances.

Foulisfair Theatre - Daughters (2)
Ten years ago, deeply entrenched in daughterdom, Foulisfair Theatre presented Daughters, an eclectic, bold and fragmented protest against all assumptions of sugar and spice. Ten years on, with motherhood now rife amongst founding members, a new ensemble presents Daughters (2), a matured and nuanced tribute to this very female condition; an exploration and celebration of a never-ending relay of daughters past, present and future, walking through our living-rooms like ghosts, bleeding on sheets, twisting towards the light.

Sarah Dixon - Mother Bunting
Bunting! Mothers! Do you see the connection?
They are pretty and jolly, and make a nice atmosphere, just by hanging in the background with their cute little colourful trails batting in the breeze. Mother Bunting looks like bunting, but in the bunting is the stuff that's only there if you look at it properly. The blood, the guts, the tears, the sweat, the sore backs, the aching hearts. The confusion, the pain, the joy, the mystery and the goddamn true facts of this crazy s*** we call 'Mother'.

Mother Bunting is a participatory artwork by Sarah Dixon that invites you to make bunting on a Mother theme, for groups shows in Stroud, London and the US. Free template to download from sarahdixonfineart.co.uk. Sarah will read two Mother Bunting texts, her own and a contributed piece.

Grow - Uta Baldauf
A poetic exploration of the theme growing. Growing vegetables, children, feelings. Growing is a long process. Waiting and growing. This performance will be a linguistic and surreal investigation. The unknown will be hovering with the performer. A playful and thoughtful moment in time, growing apart from the expected vision.

Unsung, Untold - Chloe of the Midnight Storytellers
A young couple have 2.4 children and a work/life balance under strain. But she has a song to sing and a story to tell. A magical realism mystery for the 21st century. - Chloë of the Midnight Storytellers continues to explore the contemporary spoken word, in cheerful and thought provoking fantasy brimming with lyrical language.

Chloe Jacquet
Based in Gloucestershire and with a multicultural background, Chloë is a multi-slam winning performance poet and current Oxford Hammer & Tongue poetry slam champion. With a preference for straight talking and a penchant for rhymes and opinions, Chloe’s poetry is both entertaining and accessible. Her work deals with a wide variety of subjects, ranging from workplace discrimination to the pressures placed on modern men, via her short term relationship with a biscuit.