“No day shall erase you from the memory of time”
From Virgil’s Aeneid, inscribed at the 9/11 Memorial Museum

“I wasn’t flying that day, was at home in my PJs, watching it unfold live on TV while my flight attendant girlfriend got ready to fly a trip to New York. Turned out neither of us flew anywhere for a few days”
– An unnamed pilot

“If September 11th has taught us anything, it’s certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair”
– Bono

“Remember the hours after Sept 11 when we came together as one! It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us”
— John Kerry

“If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate”
— Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl

“Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It’s a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It’s also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend – even a friend whose name it never knew”
— George W. Bush

“The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment”
– Joanne Woodward, actress

“September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world”
– Tom Ford

“I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me”
– Lena Dunham

“I interview a woman from Queens; a mother. Her son is a firefighter, and they still can’t account for him. She starts crying, and I start crying too, and I can’t stop shaking. I don’t know if I can do this anymore”
– Janice in Come From Away

“That’s how New Yorkers feel,” the driver said. “They know what bombing looks like, and they know the hell it is. But outside New York, people will feel guilty because they weren’t here. They’ll be yelling for revenge out of guilt and ignorance. Sure, we all want to catch the criminals, but only people who weren’t in New York will want to bomb another country and repeat what happened here”
– Gloria Steinem

“Pictures on the nightstand
TV’s on in the den
Your house is waiting
Your house is waiting
For you to walk in
For you to walk in
But you’re missing
You’re missing
You’re missing when I shut out the lights
You’re missing when I close my eyes
You’re missing when I see the sunrise
You’re missing”– Bruce Springsteen, You’re Missing, from The Rising

“Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honour those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11”
— Barack Obama

“Never forget”
9/11 Memorial & Museum

25th anniversary of 9/11

History … her story … hysteria

THAT is not just an alliterative play on words – it is the underlying theme of a fascinating solo play by Anglo-German theatre company, Fish in a Dress, which has four Dorset dates on its autumn national tour, starting at the Bay Theatre at Weymouth on Tuesday 15th September.

The City for Incurable Women will also be at Dorchester Arts at the Corn Exchange, on Thursday 17th, Shaftesbury Arts Centre on Friday 18th and the Mowlem at Swanage on Saturday 20th.

Ladies and gentlemen, are you feeling a little upset? Have you tried hypnosis, psychoanalysis, smelling salts … and it just doesn’t work? Try The City for Incurable Women! In a psychiatric hospital in Paris in the 1880s, female patients performed ‘hysteria’ for the public and doctors went to extraordinary lengths to prove their theories about the four stages of madness.

Today, in the 21st century, storyteller Kae begins to explore this history, tracing the echoes to the present, lingering in the body, but perhaps getting a little too caught in the story.

The international theatre collective, Fish in a Dress follows the thread of the history of hysteria in this critically-acclaimed show, which was given four stars by The Guardian and The Stage, as the audience becomes complicit in an outrageous tale of medical misogyny.

The performer is Charlotte McBurney, daughter of Simon McBurney, founder and artistic director of the pioneering and acclaimed Complicite theatre company.