From the Mouths of Mothers

Amanda Stuart Fisher is a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has written and directed several plays including Who Will Carry The Word? an adaptation of Charlotte Delbo's play and The Adventures of the Big Bad Wolfy, a devised play which was performed at The Hall for Cornwall. Amanda is the author of several articles and chapters in books and has published in journals such as TDR, Studies in Theatre and Performance and Performance Research. She lives in SW London with her husband and two children.

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"A haunting visual background portraying real life video recordings of young children in vulnerable home environments reminds us that beyond the safe walls of the counselling space, or the 'help group', real lives are being lived. The play exposes common failures of the legal, social and healthcare systems that should have been there to support these women. There are examples of doctors who don't conduct proper medical examinations when there are suspicions of abuse, or mothers being questioned and even verbally attacked by social workers while seeking help for their children. As an observer, this is an appalling reality to take in. By watching the play, we all become "passive" witnesses in a sense." - Huffington Post.