The review was written after a performance at The Nightingale Theatre in London.
Newton writes that "As far as they are concerned they refuse to be ghettoised into the category of 'Women's Theatre', as it is precisely this kind of pigeonholing which can prevent their ideas from filtering into 'mainstream' theatre. For similar reasons they deliberated over titling Pulp a 'Lesbian' thriller - such labelling could frighten away as many as it attracted."
This shows a review of the play ‘ Hotel Destiny’ which was performed at The Oval House Theatre.
The review is generally positive, with some negative remarks, but states that the performance "is an evening of lesbian affirmation with mixed pleasures - ingenious, gently laconic without being fully satisfying, subversive without truly detonating."
The review was written after a performance at the Drill Hall in London.
Bardsley writes that "Siren have always been mesmerised by the idea of time travel, they move their performances through both past and future and around a central theme of DANGER: the danger of lesbian sexuality (and of any kind of 'otherness') to straight society."
This review was done after a performance of ‘Pulp’ at the Premises, Norwich Arts Centre.
"Siren, here acting women with 'pasts'...will, without a doubt, make it even bigger in the future."
A collection of images from Siren's cabaret show 'Chic to Chic'. These images show Siren performing ‘Chic to Chic’ in the open air stage at the Vondelpark, Amsterdam.
A collection of images from Siren's cabaret show 'Chic to Chic', in London.
1. This shows Hilary Ramsden and Jude Winter performing in Siren’s cabaret, ‘Chic to Chic’. Photo taken by Alix Adams.
2. This shows Jude Winter and Hilary Ramsden and Jane Boston performing in Siren’s cabaret, ‘Chic to Chic’. Photo taken by Alix Adams.
3. This shows Tash Fairbanks and Hilary Ramsden in ‘Chic to Chic’. Photo taken by Alix Adams.
4. This shows Tash Fairbanks wearing her ‘Keep GLC Working for London’ badge. The Greater London Council was abolished in the month that this photo was taken, March 1986. Photo taken by Alix Adams. Siren wrote a song which they performed as a band called ‘GLC” about what the GLC had funded for women, especially for young women and girls - ‘Girls Nights’ at many youth clubs.
5. This shows Hilary Ramsden, Jude Winter, Jane Boston and Tash Fairbanks in ‘Chic to Chic’. Taken by Cherry Potts.
A collection of images from Siren's play 'Hotel Destiny'.
1. This shows a photo of Jane Boston as ‘Blame’.
2. The photos show Siren members Jude Winter and Hilary Ramsden on-stage and off-stage. Both Hilary and Jude were prone to ‘corpsing’ on stage and off stage, enjoying each other’s performance rather too much! (Colour photo taken by unknown photographer).
3. This shows the full cast of ‘Hotel Destiny; Tash Fairbanks as Chance, Hilary Ramsden as Miss Evans, Jude Winter as Rough and Jane Boston as Blame.
4. This shows Jane Boston as Blame and Tash Fairbanks as Chance.
A collection of images from Siren's show 'Pulp'.
1. This shows a photo of Hilary Ramsden as Kay in ‘Pulp”.
2. This shows a photo of Jane Boston as Magda and Jude Winter as Heddy in ‘Pulp’.
3. This shows a photo of the full cast of ‘Pulp’; Jude Winter as Heddy, Jane Boston as Magda, Hilary Ramsden as Kay, Tashha Fairbanks as Dolores.
The play opened at the Drill Hall in London for 2 weeks in 1985 and was sold out every night. It returned to the Drill Hall in January 1986,.
Manny describes Pulp as "a feminist play par excellence, brilliantly acted, refreshing, hilariously entertaining".
The preview has an interview with Jane Boston who played Magda.
Salvadori describes the play as "a homage to Fifties B-movies with ladykillers, Mafia plots, and McCarthy conspiracies. But it's also a parody, poking fun at the femme fatale image and the clean cut freshness of stars like Doris Day."