{"id":3152,"date":"2025-02-10T11:27:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T11:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/?page_id=3152"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:52:38","slug":"the-matilda-effect","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/?page_id=3152","title":{"rendered":"The Matilda Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Anna Reynolds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Touring March 2027<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Matilda-Effect-image-by-and-c-Daisy-Steers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Matilda-Effect-image-by-and-c-Daisy-Steers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Matilda-Effect-image-by-and-c-Daisy-Steers.jpg 640w, https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Matilda-Effect-image-by-and-c-Daisy-Steers-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Matilda-Effect-image-by-and-c-Daisy-Steers-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Matilda-Effect-image-by-and-c-Daisy-Steers-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Original image for The Matilda Effect by and (c) Daisy Steeers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reynolds&#8217; punchy, amusing and provocative writing shines a light on challenges faced by women scientists throughout history.<br><br>In <em>The Matilda Effect<\/em>, we meet three women, all called Matilda.<br>We visit three time zones: then, now, and still developing.&nbsp;<br>And we encounter a giant amount of mansplaining<em>.<\/em><br><br>Matilda is a climate pioneer.&nbsp;<br>Mattie is a geneticist.<br>Tilly is an engineer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But every time one of them gets close to the Big Idea, or the Big Prize, Tom, Dick and Harry are there, standing in front of her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Director<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosamunde Hutt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Women&#8217;s History Month 2027 Tour<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re open for bookings for our March 2027 inaugural tour of The Matilda Effect. The production will be highly flexible and capable of visiting many different places &#8211; including spaces which haven&#8217;t been purposely designed for theatre. We have a particular focus on education settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To express interest, hear more and for a discussion please contact us asap using the Contact Form below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Anna Reynolds Touring March 2027 Reynolds&#8217; punchy, amusing and provocative writing shines a light on challenges faced by women scientists throughout history. In The Matilda Effect, we meet three women, all called Matilda.We visit three time zones: then, now, and still developing.&nbsp;And we encounter a giant amount of mansplaining. Matilda is a climate pioneer.&nbsp;Mattie &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/?page_id=3152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Matilda Effect&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2840,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3152","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3152\/revisions\/3337"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pursuedbyabear.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}