Rebellion and redemption: how the Slits gave a voice to female prisoners
Playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm on how the groundbreaking female punk band helped her tell the story of women suffocating in the prison system It was a bit of a "pinch me" moment, to be honest. Earlier this month I sat in the rehearsal room for Typical Girls and watched our incredible cast play the music of the Slits to Tessa Pollitt, an original member of the band. When I first started writing this show, never in my…