Rona Munro's 1991 play Bold Girls is a tale of four Belfast women during the Troubles, exploring personal and communal history, and what it means when aspects of a community - ideologies, relationships, and spaces, for example - are threatened. Despite being set in a very specific time and place, the themes are universal: how societies are warped by male violence, dominance, and social privilege, and female subservience to that behaviour. Bold Girls is a case-study of the victims - rather than the perpetrators - of conflict: an unsentimental portrait of women's lives under psychological siege. Gillian Sargent's Scotnote Study Guide provides a comprehensive overview to the characters and themes of Munro's play, as well as its artistic and cultural influences, and is an excellent guide for senior school pupils and teachers alike.
| ISBN: | 9781906841478 |
| Publication date: | 23rd August 2021 |
| Author: | Gillian Sargent, Association for Scottish Literary Studies |
| Publisher: | Association for Scottish Literary Studies |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 73 pages |
| Series: | Scotnotes |