^ Difficult Women (4 April 2007 – 4 April 2007), 2007, retrieved 17 February 2018In “I Will Follow You,” the difficult woman was kidnapped by a child molester when she was 10 years old.^ Difficult Women (8 February 1995 – 25 February 1995), 1995, retrieved 17 February 2018.Retrieved 17 February 2018 – via National Library of Australia.

'Is there life after 'Shaddap You Face'?'. ^ a b Fickling, David (29 November 2002).Note: Hek's first name is shown as 'Linn'. 'Characters More Different than Difficult'. ^ a b c Leedham, Nicole (10 March 1994).Van Hek, Linn Dolce, Joe (1998), Difficult Women, L.In 2007, a performance was in the Victoria rural city of Castlemaine, at the Acquador Room, in April. In February 1995, Difficult Women was performed at Budinski's Theatre of Exile, Carlton. Strange Australian aunts and the work of Dale Spender on the links between gender and language mingled with Madam Tolstoy, who wrote out War and Peace 53 times by hand for her husband.' The run at the Carclew Ballroom, North Adelaide, was over four days in mid-July of that year. Ī Canberra performance in March 1994 was covered by The Canberra Times: 'the portraits were gentle but clear, clever and minor costume changes marking the differences. Its first run was in mid-June 1992 at La Mama Theatre, Carlton. Toklas, Camille Claudel, Katherine Mansfield and Louisa Lawson. The Guardian 's David Fickling noted that about pioneering feminists who were thought in their time to be 'difficult', rather than visionary.' Ī typical show contains over four hours of material on important women including Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo, Memphis Minnie, Sonya Tolstoi, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. ' The group works through a combination of theatrical vignettes, original music, songs, harmony singing and oration, to tell the stories of women who were labelled 'difficult' by society for their willingness to defy what was expected of them. Hek is bringing these women alive with her theatrical collaboration with musician.

Nicole Leedham of The Canberra Times observed, 'to some they are difficult women, to others they were courageous. Hek performed the roles to Dolce's compositions. Literary-folk music cabaret created in 1992ĭifficult Women is a literary-folk music cabaret created in 1992, in Melbourne, by Lin Van Hek and Joe Dolce and has been performing internationally for 15 years.ĭifficult Women, a name taken from the Salem witch trials, was established as a literary-folk music project by Lin Van Hek and her domestic partner, Joe Dolce, in early 1992.

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