Intolerable Acts

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Notes

¹ The deaths of these young girls at the hands of their fathers, mothers and step-fathers were not tied to sexual abuse. However, their murders were significant insofar as they shattered the myth that murder is likely to be committed by a stranger, and further they undermined the safety of the home and the bastion institution of Thatcherism – the Family.

² For example, debbie tucker green's Born Bad (2003), Claire Dowie's Easy Access (for the boys) (1998), Sarah Daniels Head-rot Holiday (1992), The Madness of Esme and Shaz (1994) and Beside Herself (1990), Martin McDonagh The Pillowman (2003), Janet Jones at al And all the Children Cried (2002), Lucy Prebble's The Sugar Syndrome (2003), Anthony Weigh's 2,000 Feet Away (2008), Simon Gray's The Late Middle Classes (1999), Sarah Kane's Crave (1998), Anthony Neilson's The Lying Kind (2002) and Relocated (2008), Alan Bennett's ‘Playing Sandwiches’ and ‘Soldiering On’ in his Talking Heads series (1998 and 1988 respectively), Anna Furse's Augustine (Big Hysteria) (1997), Dennis Kelly's Debris (2004), Kay Trainor's Bad Girl (1992), David Eldridge's Festen (2004), Scarlet Theatre's Paper Walls (1994), Clare McIntyre's My Heart's a Suitcase (1990), Shelagh Stephenson's Five Kinds of Silence (1996), Michael Wilcox's Massage (1986), Dell Campbell's All and Everything in Between (2001), Arnold Wesker's Denial (2000), David Harrower's Blackbird (2005), Terry Johnson's Hysteria (1993), Mike Cullen's Anna Weiss (1997), Bryony Lavery's Frozen (1998) and Elaine Feinstein's Lear's Daughters (1987).