Bechdel Theatre

Bechdel Theatre We create and facilitate physical and digital spaces to increase visibility, build solidarity and radically re-imagine the possibilities of UK theatre.

Bechdel Theatre is a grassroots community interest company that supports, connects and amplifies people of marginalised genders in and through theatre and performance. Bechdel Theatre is a grassroots community interest company that supports, connects and amplifies people of marginalised genders* in and through theatre and performance.

On Tuesday, join us & at Alex Etchart (they them) is director of & . They’re a British Uruguayan social artist using ...
14/03/2026

On Tuesday, join us & at

Alex Etchart (they them) is director of & . They’re a British Uruguayan social artist using theatre, music, film & education to amplify q***r, decolonial & environmental communities & campaigns across UK/internationally.

Alex has run stigma-busting songwriting workshops in over a dozen countries. Their workshops turn vacuous 90s bangers & Disney slop that lives rent free in our brain into social movement anthems that are effortless to spread.

Part of Bechdel Theatre: Creative Resistance. An interactive, community-focused space for making & building connections between each other.

Newcomers welcome - you don’t need to have attended any previous sessions to join this one!

Expect:
🤗 To socialise & meet others
📣 Reflect on how songs are used in social movements
🎶 Make an anthem together, using “composted” pop music
🥁 Join in how you like - no special skills necessary!

Illustration
Bechdel Theatre supported by the National Lottery Community fund.

Description:
1. Alex outside by a rocky hill & blue sky. They're a British Uruguayan person, with short light-brown hair & small moustache, they're often described as looking Russian, but actually South American. They wear bright multicoloured stripes & a chunky sun-shaped necklace. They gaze thoughtfully into the distance, golden sunlight falling on their face. Under the photo, a cartoonish illustration of a group of people walking together, in hues of orange, purple & green pastels that match the background. Caption: Creative Resistance - Composting pop with Alex Etchart

2. A group of brightly-dressed people, each wearing a different colour, singing together in a light, high-ceilinged, wood-panneled room. In the foreground, 2 people with their backs turned - one conducting from a music stand. In the middle-ground 8 people (including Alex in the middle) stand at podiums draped in fabric that's colour-coordinated with their outfits. Further back, a dozen people, singing from sheets of paper. Text: Tuesday 17 March 6:30-8:30 @ QUEERCIRCLE SE10 0BN, logos for Bechdel, q***rcircle & National Lottery

From our guest facilitator: “Hi I’m Remi, I’m a therapist, working over a decade in q***r community spaces. This will no...
07/12/2025

From our guest facilitator: “Hi I’m Remi, I’m a therapist, working over a decade in q***r community spaces. This will not a therapy session. It will be a space that we can explore with creative, body and playful practices. What's your current relationship to care? What are your desires for this relationship?”

is a qualified person-centred therapist. They have worked extensively with clients from the LGBTQ+ community, specifically with trans and gender variant people and their community. More recently, Remi’s practice has included Constellation work (which has an emphasis on African spirituality and ancestry) as another complementary and decolonial modality to weave into their existing work.

Join us with Remi on Tuesday Dec 9 at ***rcircle 6-8pm

Expect:

💗 A space to socialise & meet others interested in care, creativity & resistance.

🗣️ To discuss & explore how we care for ourselves & each other within systems of oppression.

😌 To connect to the breath & body, exploring somatics & grounding techniques.

🎨 Use different creative methods to explore care (no skills or experience necessary!)

Tix are completely PWYC (from £0), but booking is essential, so we can plan for numbers.

We're on the 1st floor at QUEERCIRCLE, which is accessible via lift, with accessible & gender neutral loos on the same floor.

More info on - feel free to drop us an email if you have any Qs.

Bechdel Theatre are supported by the National Lottery Community fund.

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Image Description:

A mixed pastel background with cartoonish text that says “This Tuesdays guest facilitator’. In the middle, a photo of Remi with the title “Space With Remi” in bold orange text. Remi is a dark skin Black person with locs tied up in a black scarf, looking to the right of the camera and grinning, wearing a multicoloured fleece, some plants and a green wall just visible behind them. Below, the Bechdel Theatre, QUEERCIRCLE & Community Fund logo.

Bechdel Theatre presents a monthly space to get together and explore creative resistance at QUEERCIRCLE in Greenwich. Ou...
21/11/2025

Bechdel Theatre presents a monthly space to get together and explore creative resistance at QUEERCIRCLE in Greenwich.

Our next session is on Tuesday the 9th December, where we’ll be welcoming ‘Space With Remi’ () as our guest facilitator - a qualified therapist who works with creative, ancestral, and bodily ways of knowing.

This session will focus on exploring our relationship to care creatively and as a form of resistance.
How do we care for ourselves creatively? How do we care for others?
Whether you feel like you have a good routine and relationship to care or whether you’re at the beginning of this journey, we invite you to come and explore this together, in a space held by Remi and Bechdel creative facilitator, Beth ().

Sessions will be interactive, informal and community-focused, with space for making and building connections between each other - some sessions may involve getting stuck into practical activities (no arts skills or experience required!).

Expect:
😌 To connect to the breathe and body, exploring somatics and grounding techniques.
🎨Use different creative methods (e.g writing, drawing, movement, drama) to explore care.
🤗 A space to socialise and meet others interested in care, creativity and resistance.
🗣️ To discuss and explore how we care for ourselves and each other within systems of oppression.

These sessions are supported by the National Lottery Community Fund.
Illustration by @

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Slide 1) a mixed pastel background with orange cartoonish text reading ‘Creative Resistance’ above a photo of the person ‘Space With Remi’ - a dark skin Black person with locs tied up in a black scarf, looking to the right of the camera and grinning, wearing a multicoloured fleece. Below is a purple arrow pointing to the right, and below that is a cartoonish illustration of a protest march.

2) the same background as previous slide, the title says ‘Space With Remi’, below is the same image as before but it’s larger. Text below says: ‘Qualified therapist, working with creative, ancestral, and bodily ways of knowing’

3): the poster for the event (see previous post on 30th October)

We’re really looking forward to hosting the first Creative Resistance session at QUEERCIRCLE on Tuesday the 11th Nov, 6:...
07/11/2025

We’re really looking forward to hosting the first Creative Resistance session at QUEERCIRCLE on Tuesday the 11th Nov, 6:30pm-8:30pm ☺️

Expect:
👥 A space to socialise and meet others interested in creative resistance

👀 To explore how different artistic practices have been used on the front line of political movements.

🗣️ To share knowledge of current political movements in the UK

💪A chance to explore your own creativity as a tool of resistance

You don’t need to be an artist or activist or organiser to take part - though you might be one or all! Just come with a curiosity and an interest in the theme ☺️

For those of you coming who we haven’t met yet, let us introduce ourselves:

Pippa Sa - Creative director and creative facilitator, who explores arts for social change with young people and communities that face systemic barriers.

Beth Watson - Creative director and creative facilitator, and performer & theatre maker, to name a few.

This programme is designed as a series of events - all in the same space, with a different guest facilitator and area of focus each month. You’re welcome to book for all sessions, or just drop in to the ones that you’re available for. Tickets are available via the link in our bio.

***rcircle

EdFringe final week! So we just posted some more shows we think will be worth a watch 👀 Follow the lynx for the full lis...
21/08/2025

EdFringe final week! So we just posted some more shows we think will be worth a watch 👀

Follow the lynx for the full list of 20+ shows 🔗↖️

There's a mix of some shows we’ve already enjoyed & some that we think sound exciting, including:
, , , .gemuz, , , .theplay, , , , & too many mooooore to tag!

Go see them all (gonna be a busy last weekend)

Description:
A collage of show photos in a hot pink frame with the pink Bechdel logo in the bottom right corner. Pictured are: Leila Navabi with smudged dark make-up and backcombed hair, lounging back and giving a side-eye expression, their red chunky shoe in the foreground, medical sample tubes glowing around them. Legends of Them: Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee, a Black woman with blonde hair in a sleeveless top, singing into a mic under a red light. KING: An East Asian performer in a light crop-top and trousers, standing hands-folded in a power stance in front of a projection showing them in the same pose, wearing a basketball vest & cap. Katy Baird, a white tattooed femme with long grey-brown hair lying on the floor wearing only a series of brightly coloured straps, reaching for a grey stuffed rabbit. Dangerous Goods, a performer with a grey/silver showgirl-esque outfit, with huge drag-like eyelashes and a short dark fringe, holding forth a bright orange flame and smiling teasingly. Delia Delia: A performer painted green, with a dark unibrow, witches hat, and gleeful expression.

Just published: Shows to see at Edinburgh Fringe 2025 🔗 ↖️The full list is a mix of some artists we know & love, plus so...
12/08/2025

Just published: Shows to see at Edinburgh Fringe 2025 🔗 ↖️

The full list is a mix of some artists we know & love, plus some we spotted on our scroll through the Fringe programme that seemed like they’d ✨️worth a watch✨️

Including:

Don’t forget, if you’re at the festival, you can join our D***s To Watch Shows With groupchat: find friendly folks to watch shows with, peer-to-peer survival tips & general solidarity.

Not at EdFringe? (don’t blame you…) see our previous post for more shows to see this Summer & into Autumn

🔗 ↖️ 👀

Image Description:
A collage of 6 show promo photos, with a bright pink frame & the Bechdel Theatre logo. Featuring: I Dream In Colour (a black & white photo of a person with long dark hair. Their eyes obscured by a shadow, a colourful lens flair in the top corner); D**e Systems Inc (2 people smiling at each other, in rhinestoned pink & blue blazers, one in a blonde wig in a high messy bun, the other a messy brown pixie cut). Amy Mason (a white woman with a dark brown bob crawling across grass, wearing a red cowboy boot on one hand & looking disgruntled). LULA XYZ (a black woman with black & silver afro hair looking seriously into the camera, wearing a silky pink top, hands adorned with intricate red and gold jewellery elongating her fingers into a claw-like shape). Emma Frankland (a white woman in an off the shoulder balldress holds a guitar & snarls, she has ink splatters on her shoulders, smoke swirling around, and a crashed chandelier in front of her); Su Mi (an East Asian performer in white clown facepaint, a spiky orange wig, a checkerboard print morph suit with a red halter on top, sticking out their tongue revealing black-stained teeth).

Just published a new list of shows to see, taking you from the end of summer* into Autumn 🔗 ↖️In the full list you’ll fi...
12/08/2025

Just published a new list of shows to see, taking you from the end of summer* into Autumn 🔗 ↖️

In the full list you’ll find theatre, comedy, cabaret, solo shows, ensemble pieces, wide-reaching tours & local one-offs, including -

❤️‍🔥 Shows we’ve seen and loved: shout out to 2 of our recent faves, by Temi Wilkey & Really Good Exposure by

📍 Artists we always trust to create something well worth watching: We’ll never miss a show, or a set

👀 Stuff we thought just looked really interesting: An audio walk through a Suffolk nature reserve? A deep-dive into the trans history of Basingstoke? A South London festival of work by disabled artists? Yes, yes, and yes please, yes (, , )

Wanna find friendly folks to watch some of these shows with?
Join our D***s To Watch Shows With groupchat, a space to organise meet-ups & see stuff together - we also sometimes drop special CODES in there for more affordable nights out 🎟

* NOT including EdFringe shows - see our next post for fringe recs! 

Image Description:
A collage of 6 show promo photos, with a bright pink frame & the Bechdel Theatre logo. Featuring: Consumed (an elderly white lady looking at some balloons tied to her chair); Pete McHale from Dear Young Monster (a young white man in a grey hoodie looking seriously at the camera while taking off a Frankenstein’s Monster mask) Black Power Desk (2 young black women in 70s flares sit on/by a sound system, holding a microphone & megaphone but their mouths are closed & faces serious). The Law Of Mayhem (a collage of a man & woman in smart 40s dress, their eyes seem pasted in from different photos to their bodies, behind them an old warplane flies). Not Your Superwoman (Golda Rosheuvel & Letitia Wright sit by an orange wall, a yellow circle like a sun behind them. Letitia is cross legged, holding Golda's hand behind her, both gaze mournfully at the camera, wearing eathy-toned linen clothes); Goblin (a person with green hair facing away, dancing with their arms in the air).

Tonight we’ll be opening our zoom room to complete some digital actions challenging the EHRC guidance, writing to our MP...
28/04/2025

Tonight we’ll be opening our zoom room to complete some digital actions challenging the EHRC guidance, writing to our MPs, making donations to trans focused organisations etc.

Feel free to drop by 7-8pm.

DM us for the link if we're mutuals or email [email protected]

This won’t be a facilitated session but an open call for all those in active solidarity with trans people impacted by the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC update.

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The exact same text as the caption, in white doodly font on a purple background with black ink-scratch border.

D¥KES TO MAKE SHOWS WITHQ***r Creative Speed-networkingThu 13 March @ The GlitchWLTM: D¥kes to make shows with.A lightly...
27/02/2025

D¥KES TO MAKE SHOWS WITH
Q***r Creative Speed-networking
Thu 13 March @ The Glitch

WLTM: D¥kes to make shows with.

A lightly-facilitated ‘speed-dating’ style event designed to take the hierarchical awkwardness out of arts “networking” to help you meet co-conspirators, future collaborators & make new creative pals.

Full deets & FAQs in linktree 🔗↖️

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Cartoonish black & white text on a green background, with the same info as in the post caption. There's a scratchy inky black border and on slide 2 is the Bechdel Theatre logo and the National Lottery Community Fund logo.

Join our board 📣We're creating an advisory board. Could you be part of it?Seeking specialists in:- Fundraising for arts/...
30/01/2025

Join our board 📣
We're creating an advisory board.
Could you be part of it?

Seeking specialists in:
- Fundraising for arts/community orgs
- Social enterprise business strategy
- Safeguarding & wellbeing
- Legal for CICs
- PR & media

What's involved:
You’ll attend 4 meetings over 1 year giving your advice, contributing to our ideas and ambitions for the future, and holding us accountable to our values.

You’ll be a critical friend, a co-conspirator, and a respected ally.

Joining our advisory board does not come with legal obligations, voting, or
decision-making responsibilities.

You’ll be offered a stipend of £50 per meeting, and will always be invited to attend any of our events to gain further insight into our work.

Interested?
We're looking to recruit up to 5 board members (covering 5 key areas of expertise)

Please read the full details on linktr.ee/bechdeltheatre & send us a CV & cover letter by Wednesday 12 February

We'll be holding interviews on the weeks beginning 17 & 24 February

We aim to hold our first meeting with advisory board members in March 2025

Feel free to email us with any questions: [email protected]

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We've used bold and cartoonish fonts, in black and lavender, on a white backdrop with a lavender coloured scratchy border. The post also has our logo, a bright pink megaphone-like shape with 'Bechdel Theatre' in bold capital letters, and "supported by the National Lottery Community Fund" with their community fund logo.

Join our board 📣We're creating an advisory board. Could you be part of it?Seeking specialists in:- Fundraising for arts/...
30/01/2025

Join our board 📣
We're creating an advisory board.
Could you be part of it?

Seeking specialists in:
- Fundraising for arts/community orgs
- Social enterprise business strategy
- Safeguarding & wellbeing
- Legal for CICs
- PR & media

What's involved:
You’ll attend 4 meetings over 1 year giving your advice, contributing to our ideas and ambitions for the future, and holding us accountable to our values.

You’ll be a critical friend, a co-conspirator, and a respected ally.

Joining our advisory board does not come with legal obligations, voting, or
decision-making responsibilities.

You’ll be offered a stipend of £50 per meeting, and will always be invited to attend any of our events to gain further insight into our work.

Interested?
We're looking to recruit up to 5 board members (covering 5 key areas of expertise)

Please read the full details (via our linktree) & send us a CV & cover letter by Wednesday 12 February

We'll be holding interviews on the weeks beginning 17 & 24 February

We aim to hold our first meeting with advisory board members in March 2025

Feel free to email us with any questions: [email protected]

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We've used bold and cartoonish fonts, in black and lavender, on a white backdrop with a lavender coloured scratchy border. The 1st page also has our logo, a bright pink megaphone-like shape with 'Bechdel Theatre' in bold capital letters, and the 2nd page has "supported by the National Lottery Community Fund" with their community fund logo.

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