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Fanny for the self-titled album, 1970. Photographer Unkwown
The ideia of the name came from the group’s need of a short feminine name. The guitarrist June Millington explained “We really didn’t think of [the name Fanny] as a butt, a sexual term. We felt it was like a woman’s spirit watching over us.”
They exploited the name by showing the group members from the back and distributing bumper stickers urging record buyers to GET BEHIND FANNY, and a later advertising campaign proclaiming FANNY: THE END OF AN ERA. About fanny
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Richard II in rehearsal.
Beset by problems at home and abroad, a capricious king is forced to relinquish his ‘hollow crown’. As his supporters abandon him and his power trickles away, Richard reflects with startling eloquence on the disintegration of his status and identity.
Adjoa Andoh and Lynette Linton direct the first ever company of women of colour in a Shakespeare play on a major UK stage, in a post-Empire reflection on what it means to be British in the light of the Windrush anniversary and as we leave the European Union.
Richard II opens in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse on 22 February.
Photography by Ingrid Pollard
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