Hoxton Hall's Female Parts Shorts – a week in the life

Female Parts: Shorts consists of three short monologues that explore what it is to be a wife, mother and immigrant.

The monologues are A Woman Alone by Franca Rame and Dario Fo, The Immigrant by Oneness Sankara, and A Mother by Rame and Fo. Directed by Hoxton Hall's artistic director Karena Johnson, the production has design by Libby Watson and lighting by Sherry Coenen.

We asked the company to give us a look behind-the-scenes.

Showbiz is not all about glitz and glamour

"We caught you Zephra."

What the lights see when they watch the show

"Final dress for The Immigrant"

Testing, testing, one, two, one two

"Our sound designer Andrew Williams setting up for the first preview show."

We'll stick to doing our scales

"'This is how you do it…' Gehane Strehler doing her pre-show warm up."

Thats astro-naut what we were expecting

"'5,4,3,2,1' The Immigrant star Clare Perkins is getting ready for lift-off."

Say cheeeeese

"End of week one. Rebecca and Clare are all smiles."