john knox: Gillian decided that enough was enough, according to The Guardian. Thus in 1975 she, Chris Bowler and Mary McCusker founded Monstrous Regiment echoing John Knox's tract against rule by female monarchs with the aim of reflecting more fully the lives of women. On one occasion during the 1970s heyday of fringe theatre she found herself with a number of female actors, all auditioning for the same small role with Belt and Braces. Of their first production, Scum Death, Destruction and Dirty Washing 1976 by Chris Bond, Claire Luckham and the company, set in the Paris Commune of 1871, Gillian wrote The shivering excitement in the air was almost tangible. We were going to be the midwives for a whole new era of equality. Women felt they were throwing off the shackles of a thousand years or more and finding freedom.
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