Hi, I'm Saroj and
I was playing Dorothy Lawrence.
I'm Olivia and I'm playing Ada lovelace.
I'm Kat and playing Andrew Dunbar.
Hi I'm Kristy, and I played a part of Sofia Jex-Blake who was the first and female to go to a UK university.
'We will be in that exam room taking that exam with everyone else'
Dorothy was a
Reporter who decided that she wanted to go to the front line
'You'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?
For a girl, to be a boy.'
Ada was
a mathematician and
created the first algorithm.
'See the question is, if a human were to fly,
what would the wingspan of that big bird be?'
Andrea was a girl from Buttershaw Estate in Bradford.
She went to Buttershaw Comprehensive School, which I went to.
She wrote 'Rita, Sue and Bob Too' which a lot of people know about. They know about the work, and not about her.
She'd never seen theatre and by the age of 20 she had two plays on the West End.
'I got so used to doing what I wanted to do
that I kind of don't like someone telling me what I can't.'
And maybe in an abstract world these four women might meet, and
certain conflict will come just due to character types.
 
I had to really dig deep to find out answers about these women,
which is just so surprising when they've done such incredible things.
What you made, made us clock that we have a history or a conception of our cultural history
which is largely made up of white men. 'Are you sure I'm not a man?'
'Sure.' 'Positive.' Did I used to be a man?' 'No!'
'Does anyone here even know who I am?'
Being given a label at the beginning, which I was told I can't look at but then I had to be that person,
it turned from a game
into a feminist thing and I was going: 'I don't know these people and that makes me really sad'.
'Am I clever?' 'Hell, yeah.'
'Did I know I was clever?' 'Yes.'
'Did everyone know I was clever?'
There are so many people
who have
influenced the way that we live today
and the way that society is, and a lot of them are female, and a
lot of them are just not heard of or not talked about, and not acknowledged
'I don't care if you remember, don't waste time writing my story.
Fifty stories, fifty storeys high; bird shit covered from the outside.
I'll just keep growing stronger in this greenhouse you've designed.'
It's really exciting to see the next - generation - if you like,
of theatre-makers that want to say something about the world that makes audiences
want to do something.
Theatre's great, it's entertaining, but it's only the launchpad for a conversation, and that kind of work will stimulate
useful conversations,
and that's how we change society.
