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Ladies Against Women, 1980-1983
"I'd Rather Be Ironing"
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[this is a duplicate of another document in this collection] "I'd Rather Be Ironing" Ladies Against Women ©80,81, 82, 83 Plutonium Players Welcome to Ladies Against Women! This Consciousness Lowering Kit is a compilation of some of the best slogans, speeches, leaflets, and concepts of the original theater pieces created by the Plutonium Players, and by some of the over thirty L.A.W chapters which have formed to do street theater and other girl-illa actions adaptted from these materials. The Plutonium Players are a group of theater artists who formed to create satire as protest. We are in our sixth year, and while we still do not make out livings at this, we are now making a professional degree of committment to our work. (Well, O.K., we are hooked on performing!) We hold a copyright on the Consciousness Lowering Kit and on the scripts on which it is based, and retain all rights to this material. We are hoping that your interest in Ladies Against Women will lead to a formation of a new "chapter" of L.A.W., and we grant permission for you to use this material as a springboard for doing a Ladies' protest at a demonstration, picketline, or other free event. Please notice that we are not giving publication, recording, or performance rights outside of that arena. And if you continue as a performing group with other types of characters and skits, we hope that you will create a new name for your ongoing theater group If you are in Northern California, we are especially queasy about having you perform under the Ladies Against Women banner, and would rather invite you to join our phone tree about events where we are calling in reinforcements, because as performers, our reputation is what allows us to reach new audiences and it is based on a style we have carefully honed over the years! In other parts of the land, we ask that you do no shows where admission is charged using the name Ladies Against Women (including benefits or broadcasts), or using any of this material. And we ask that you credit us, either "in character" by mentioning the national office and all chapters and putting our address on all literature, or in actuality by a phrase like "based on a one act comedy by the Plutonium Players." For a while we tried to have it both ways, giving away our writing and trying to maintain a theater group without significant funding. We kept saying we'd pay ourselves for the work starting next year... Now, we still don't want to profit from other people's work, but we are now much more assertive about wanting credit, and sometimes pay for our work. We have heard taped versions of our scripts played on the radio without any credit, and we have had a button mass-produced and sold by someone who never contacted us. Now, we get tough, next year we really will pay ourselves! Now, the how-to. To form a chapter, you will need 5 ladies. That is arbitrary, but two is not enough and twenty is a headache unless you already work together in another setting or organization, You will need to meet first to introduce your characters to one another, perhaps to help one another with these new aliases. Then you will need to discuss and collect wardrobes, and design co-ordinated picket signs. Meanwhile, each lady should take one topic or issue as her pet peeve, and write, perhaps memorize, a short statement about it. One minute, or half a page, is a good length. Whether made on microphone at a rally, or used while chatting with passerby, these statements give you a handle on your character. Goof around, improve jokes, practice chants... Then write a press release, (on pink paper!) and hold your protest. This process can take from three days to three weeks... Remember, we all learned to play as children, and improv is child's play! Write us and let us know what happened! —the Ladies
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[this is a duplicate of another document in this collection] "I'd Rather Be Ironing" Ladies Against Women ©80,81, 82, 83 Plutonium Players Welcome to Ladies Against Women! This Consciousness Lowering Kit is a compilation of some of the best slogans, speeches, leaflets, and concepts of the original theater pieces created by the Plutonium Players, and by some of the over thirty L.A.W chapters which have formed to do street theater and other girl-illa actions adaptted from these materials. The Plutonium Players are a group of theater artists who formed to create satire as protest. We are in our sixth year, and while we still do not make out livings at this, we are now making a professional degree of committment to our work. (Well, O.K., we are hooked on performing!) We hold a copyright on the Consciousness Lowering Kit and on the scripts on which it is based, and retain all rights to this material. We are hoping that your interest in Ladies Against Women will lead to a formation of a new "chapter" of L.A.W., and we grant permission for you to use this material as a springboard for doing a Ladies' protest at a demonstration, picketline, or other free event. Please notice that we are not giving publication, recording, or performance rights outside of that arena. And if you continue as a performing group with other types of characters and skits, we hope that you will create a new name for your ongoing theater group If you are in Northern California, we are especially queasy about having you perform under the Ladies Against Women banner, and would rather invite you to join our phone tree about events where we are calling in reinforcements, because as performers, our reputation is what allows us to reach new audiences and it is based on a style we have carefully honed over the years! In other parts of the land, we ask that you do no shows where admission is charged using the name Ladies Against Women (including benefits or broadcasts), or using any of this material. And we ask that you credit us, either "in character" by mentioning the national office and all chapters and putting our address on all literature, or in actuality by a phrase like "based on a one act comedy by the Plutonium Players." For a while we tried to have it both ways, giving away our writing and trying to maintain a theater group without significant funding. We kept saying we'd pay ourselves for the work starting next year... Now, we still don't want to profit from other people's work, but we are now much more assertive about wanting credit, and sometimes pay for our work. We have heard taped versions of our scripts played on the radio without any credit, and we have had a button mass-produced and sold by someone who never contacted us. Now, we get tough, next year we really will pay ourselves! Now, the how-to. To form a chapter, you will need 5 ladies. That is arbitrary, but two is not enough and twenty is a headache unless you already work together in another setting or organization, You will need to meet first to introduce your characters to one another, perhaps to help one another with these new aliases. Then you will need to discuss and collect wardrobes, and design co-ordinated picket signs. Meanwhile, each lady should take one topic or issue as her pet peeve, and write, perhaps memorize, a short statement about it. One minute, or half a page, is a good length. Whether made on microphone at a rally, or used while chatting with passerby, these statements give you a handle on your character. Goof around, improve jokes, practice chants... Then write a press release, (on pink paper!) and hold your protest. This process can take from three days to three weeks... Remember, we all learned to play as children, and improv is child's play! Write us and let us know what happened! —the Ladies
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