Wyre's Cross

“Soap opera is a dangerous drug. Now, with an understanding and apparent love of that addiction, comes a subversively feminist soap opera for the theatre. In the limits of four deliriously plotted and jocular episodes, Peta Masters and Geraldine Griffiths replenish the stock of village characters with a raucous band of feminist entertainers, the Norfolk Broads, who bring about a revolution among the women of Wyre’s Cross ... It is an absolute joy to watch the carefully honed clichés of soap opera transformed into deadpan comedy before they give way to the radical clichés of women’s liberation; it is genuinely liberating to see the unconscious minds of Wyre’s Cross aroused by the rhetoric of sisterhood.” The Times, 1982. Published here for the first time.