Betty Grumble: Love and Anger
LOVE AND ANGER, is back after a one night stint in the Griffin Bach Festival last April. Betty Grumble, a subversive burlesque artist from the fringe of Sydney theatre activism is, spectacularly, back. With the 1967 text, THE SCUM MANIFESTO, by Valerie Solanas – a radical feminist work – in her hands and quoted from, serving as a reference to give this work, well spine, Betty uses her body in a ‘ in-yer-face’ reveal to parody, satirise, mens’ historic objectification of women and to re-claim the sexual normality of the female. She is fearless (courageous) in the method of her…