Open Clasp Theatre Company
Co-creating theatre with women that ignites activism & calls for a revolution.
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Guest Blog – Why Women in Prison Deserve Better
Guest Blog – Why Women in Prison Deserve Better
Why women in prison deserve better: reflections sparked by Rupture When I watched Rupture, more than a decade after serving my own custodial sentence, it reopened the door to a past I have spent years
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Catrina McHugh–Stages of Justice | Podcast
Podcast Episode · Stages of Justice · 18/12/2025 · 29m
Rattle Snake- Women's experiences of DV
Rattle Snake- Women's experiences of DV
Written by Catrina McHugh MBEDirected by Charlotte BennettStarring Christina Berriman Dawson and Eilidh TalmanSpine tingling and visceral, Rattle Snake will literally take your breath away. Based on real life stories of women who have faced and survived coercive controlling domestic abuse, this emotional tour-de force has trained over 1,700 frontline police officers, social workers and frontline services responding to sexual and domestic violence after the UK law was changed, making coercive control in relationships a crime. Share with colleagues, friends and family to help raise awareness of coercive control. "As an awareness-raising piece of work and as a play in its own right, Rattle Snake is pretty much faultless." ★★★★★ LondonTheatre1
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Find out how We are a feminist theatre company. The theatre we co-create calls for revolution. It ignites activism and places theatre at the heart of personal, social and political change. We create spaces for women, inclusive of trans women and non-binary individuals, to be creative, share, and discuss. Women
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Support Our Mission Your contribution helps us co-create powerful theatre with women and girls in our communities. Your support makes a difference: changing society through theatre. As a charity (Registered number: 1108000), Open Clap Theatre Company relies
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The change we want can feel out of reach and hopeless, but theatre can and does change lives. It creates empathy. Powerful Personal Change Gold Star Members Our gold star members are our co-creators who go the extra mile following the workshops. They stay close to the company, advise and directly inform
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We aim to Change the World, One Play at a Time. The theatre we co-create calls for revolution. It ignites activism and places theatre at the heart of transforming the lives of women and girls. We co-create with women excluded by theatre and society to create bold and urgent theatre for personal, social and political change. Our work is performed in theatres, prisons, village halls, schools, conferences and community centres, resonating deep into the communities where it is created and outside.
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