A Girl Isn’t Made of Cement is reworked from our 2018 performance, Velvet Brown and the Comforters, a semi-devised biography of Muriel Spark filtered through the lens of her 1970 novel, The Driver’s Seat.
Interspersing live and filmed episodes from Spark’s life with a cocktail demonstration from the star of the novel’s film adaptation, Elizabeth Taylor, A Girl Isn’t Made of Cement shifts the focus to Taylor and her relationship with Richard Burton to explore the interconnected web of love, alcoholism and performance that was at the heart of their marriage.
A Girl Isn’t Made of Cement
Wee theatres festival 2020
The Poetry Club 2018
A Girl Isn’t Made of Cement
23 February 2020
Wee Theatres Festival 2020 - The Pyramid at Anderston, Glasgow
4 April 2018
The Poetry Club, Glasgow - as Velvet Brown and the Comforters
Lead Artist Josh Dodds
Devised in collaboration with the performers
Text by Josh Dodds, Della Goldman, Lily Carmen Smith & Lucy Stewart
Performers
Josh Dodds, Della Goldman, Lily Carmen Smith & Lucy Stewart
with voice/video performances from Tomas Dvorak, Jack Elfick, Liz Hammond, Sven Maier, Margaret-Ann Stewart and Adam Streets
Set Design
Jennifer Logan
research & development
research & development
REading List
Richard Burton’s 1980 appearance on the Dick Cavett Show
Guiseppe Patroni Griffi - Identikit
Muriel Spark - The Driver’s Seat
Martin Standard - Muriel Spark: The Biography
Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa
Andy Warhol - Liz
