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Chris Bowler obituary

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Actor in alternative theatre and later arts manager who developed community culture in east London

Chris Bowler, who has died aged 67 of myeloid leukaemia, was a founder member of the leading feminist theatre company Monstrous Regiment. A key figure in the alternative theatre scene of the 1970s, she was a performer, writer and director who graduated to arts management and fundraising.

Monstrous Regiment was founded in 1975 by a collective committed to feminism and socialism. The participants came from different strands of political, experimental, musical and educational theatre, but they shared a sense of frustration at the continuing marginalisation and objectification of women, even in the new wave of radical and experimental theatre that was booming in the 1970s.

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