Mollspeak

Fiction

Mollspeak is a new sound work, written and directed by artist Maria Fusco, with an original score by Olivier Pasquet and voiced by actor Maxine Peake. Presented here for a limited time only, the piece, experimental in form, explores and embodies working-class voices of eighteenth century servants in England. The work’s title, Mollspeak, is taken from a phrase used by employers to denigrate or belittle their servants’ way of speaking. Its negative connotation is subverted by headlining a work that illuminates the importance of working class narratives. Servants were not allowed keys to the houses they tended, Mollspeak kicks down these doors.