The Knickerline

The clue is in the title, The Knickerline. The inspiration comes from underwear drying on a washing line. If only pairs of pants could tell a tale, what tale would they tell? We realised that if every woman brought a pair of nicely washed pants along to our workshops and told us a story they associated with them, what an amazing line up of stories we would have. We also realised that it would be a great way to access some of the things women perhaps talk about privately but wouldn't usually share in public.

We ran a project about Somerset women's lives - a celebration of those lives. That means very ordinary run-of-the-mill tales or seat-of-the-pants tales, heartwarming stories or deeply moving stories. Whatever the story, we made use of them to build up our Women's Day installation projects at The Princess and Brewhouse Theatres.

Longterm, The Knickerline, is intended as a piece of narrative music theatre with a clear story line which makes use of the elements that local women bring to us. It's intended as a grass-roots up music project to give a musical voice to Somerset women.