Description

This is a play that Humphreys wrote in 2020 in response to a call-out for short, one-woman plays on the theme of ‘women in lockdown’. She will perform the play and then give a short presentation about how this recent work is connected to her PhD research and creative practice (which has been considerably interrupted by the pandemic). Her research explores ways that ethnicity is written out of screen stories and how writers can challenge this absence through historical drama. She is also writing an original screenplay as part of the research project and this is a historical drama about Indigenous Australians living in England in the 1830s.

About the Presenter

Sheridan Humphreys is a writer and PhD candidate in the emerging academic discipline of screenwriting. Her research and practice explores hidden histories of race and ethnicity in the Britain and Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and explores ways that writers can improve diversity on screens by writing roles in historical dramas for protagonists who are not white. Sheridan is a lecturer in screenwriting at the University of Greenwich and Royal Holloway, University of London. Sheridan blogs about how Britain perceives Australia through Australian theatre, at www.sheridanhumphreys.com.