Avoiding the rest of the family at Christmas led Rosie Wilby to her Dad’s attic in Ormskirk, and a gift of a trove of dusty artefacts he’d never thrown away.
Remnants from her university days found carefully preserved in an old NUS plastic bag, prompted this show.
Nineties Woman is Wilby’s story of tracking down old college mates from ‘layout weekend’, when they used to get together to produce their feminist mag Matrix.
Cartoons of the feminists in dungarees drawn for the Matrix front cover were a reminder of those times, and a photo of the editorial committee’s staging of a gay wedding strangely prophetic.
Whilst much was made of the gals’ former crush on the elusive Kate (reported to be happily married now to a (male) academic in Bristol) and some hilarity was given to a younger Wilby’s 1990s hairdo, the film-clips of interviews were a bit similar to sustain interest.
Three-quarters of the way in the show was feeling a bit long for all its relevance to social history.
The funniest bit was of an interviewee’s dog scoffing biscuits in the lower right hand corner of a clip, successfully competing with anything his owner had to say.
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