A Girl Isn’t Made of Cement is re-worked 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
A Girl Isn’t Made of Cement
23 February 2020
The Pyramid at Anderston, Glasgow - part of the 2020 Wee Theatres Festival
4 April 2018
The Poetry Club, Glasgow - as Velvet Brown and the Comforters
Directed by Josh Dodds
Text by Lucy Stewart
Performers
Lucy Stewart & Jack Elfick
Special thanks to Lily Carmen Smith, Lane Goldman, Jennifer Logan, Liz Hammond, Margaret Ann Stewart, Sven Maier, Tomas Dvorak & Adam Streets for their contributions to Velvet Brown and the Comforters
research & development
research & development
INFLUENCES
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
