Friday, June 22, 2018
Whilst the cast of the current West End production of Tartuffe perform in a mixture of English and French, the bilingual Exchange
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Arthur Miller’s final play Finishing the Picture explores the manufacturing of female stars in Hollywood and their struggle to find their own
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Taking its cue from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 gothic feminist short story The Yellow Wallpaper, Ruby Lawrence’s intelligent re-imagining makes for an
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Sewing tends to be thought of as a quiet, meditative activity performed by women in peaceful surroundings. The men’s prison in which
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In Tim Cook’s hour-long play Adam and Eve, the biblical progenitors take the form of a smug middle-class couple (played by Lee
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In 1912, only the most desperate out-of-work theatre actors would have considered slumming it in moving picture shows. By 1928, cinema was
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Based on true accounts of young women running away to join IS, Chicago-based playwright Selina Fillinger’s debut play Faceless (which she wrote
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Inspired by co-writer Lucy Joy Russell’s personal experiences of IVF treatment, Stuffed follows 40-year-old Kim and her husband Jack’s increasingly attempt to
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Based on a novel by Simon Leys, Napoleon Disrobed imagines a scenario in which the diminutive tyrant escapes from exile in St
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In honour of the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Finborough Arms building, the west London pub theatre is presenting a
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The opening scene of Austen The Musical makes a strong argument in favour of ‘The Death of the Author’ mode of literary
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The painterly title Woman Before a Glass is suggestive of the male gaze. This one-woman play by Lanie Robertson – author of
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Abi Morgan’s three-hander Tiny Dynamite was last seen at the Lyric Studio in 2003. As well as continuing to write for theatre,
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This time last year, Joanne Clifton raised the Strictly Come Dancing mirrorball trophy in front of a television audience of millions. Having
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Joan Aiken’s The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (first published in 1962) is a tale that has it all: intrepid orphans, a manor
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In his memoirs, Arthur Conan Doyle expressed regret for not granting Dr Watson any sense of humour. This unabashedly comic adaptation of
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In his crass and unfunny play Curtain Call, Simon Bradbury also takes the lead role of Stanley Shenton, a once distinguished classical
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Charting the Malay Emergency of 1948, Peter Nichols’ play with songs Privates on Parade is a curious cross between a pantomime and
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New Zealand performer Penny Ashton has a personal connection with the lady on the new £10 note, being a fifth great niece
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In 1957, Moscow street dog Laika was selected by the Soviet space programme as their canine guinea pig. Poor Laika had no
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (celebrating its bicentenary this year) is a messy, straggly, unapologetically raw novel that opens out like a series of
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When he wasn’t designing architectural masterpieces such as Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard, polymath John Vanbrugh had a side line as a
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In 1897, the women of Girton College Cambridge were warned. They were given an explanation. Nevertheless, they persisted until women were finally
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Jack Stanley’s apocalyptic comedy of manners Catastrophists is rooted in Alan Ayckbourn territory. Obnoxious young professionals Raf and Harry host a dinner
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Committed suffragette Cicely Hamilton had a remarkable career using drama, journalism and novels to promote women’s rights. Her 1911 play Just to
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Jennifer Selway’s three-hander Treating Odette is a treat to watch. Inspired by her friend Patricia Law who worked in an exclusive Mayfair
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Based on the novel by Melvyn Bragg, Howard Goodall’s first musical The Hired Man is a depiction of working-class northern life in
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Steve Rodgers’s 2012 play Food (receiving its first production outside Australia) is an abrasive affair, more of a haphazard buffet than a
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Richard Bean’s bittersweet two-hander stands in marked contrast to the brassier style he is known for, in plays including One Man Two
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Few things are more relevant or chilling at present than alternative facts. In Naylah Ahmed’s new play Ready or Not, the toxic
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“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance”, Charlotte Lucas informs Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. While the pragmatic Charlotte
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