Research

This is a painting of Myra Hindley made by Marcus Harvey, out of childrens handprints. In our site there are handprints all around the outside and wall surrounding it. And form those handprints when doing research we found this picture and it became a stimulus for our piece of theatre. We started by looking into the background Myra Hindley and how she became the most hated women in Britian and the horrible crime that she and her partner committed. One of the things that I thought was most interesting is how most people remember her name and see her as the prominate one in the killings. Personally, from doing sociology, I think she is remembered because most people in society don't see women as being capable of doing such a horific crime and as women are supposed to be maternal and caring. Consequently it seems even more unbeliveable that a woman was invloved in the murders and sexual assults as people in general wouldn't think of a woman being capable of doing such a crime. Also because of the majoirty of people who are in prison being men, the stereotype for rapist and murders are that they are male, so it was even more shocking that a woman had been invloved, therefore leaving her as more memerable in their minds.

Also from research what I have found out is that Myra's partner: Ian Brady was thought of as to be mentally and was actually declaired to be clinically insane, so in some ways this doesn't make it acceptable, however people can see how this man wasn't in the right frame of mind. However Myra on the other hand, was seen to be mentally healthy. This makes it even harder to understand or even to get your head around as it is hard to belive that any sane person would do such a horrific act, numerous times.