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Things That Do Not C(o)unt, Vault Festival
No Offence Theatre’s Things That Do Not C(o)unt is a bold look at female sexuality, body positivity and Nastazja Somers’ homeland Poland through her own story and that of the generations before her. Much like Good Girl I found myself relating to this, perhaps too much. Somers, like myself, was also an early developer. Periods at 9…
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One Last Waltz, Greenwich Theatre
Luke Adamson’s play about Alzheimer’s Disease misses the emotional mark with stilted dialogue and misunderstanding at where the true tragedy of the disease lies. Alice (Amanda Reed) is forgetting with alarming frequency, from forgetting where the photograph album is to forgetting doctor’s appointment she has just had. Her daughter Mandy (Julie Binysh) assumes it is…
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King’s Head Theatre announce female playwrights season
In response to the under-representation of women in Theatre The King’s Head Theatre announce a season dominated by female voices. King’s Head Theatre Senior Producer Louisa Davis says: “Conversations about gender equality are nothing new, but as a female theatremaker it was becoming more and more frustrating seeing so much stage time being given to male voices…
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Bunny, Tristan Bates Theatre
Review by Carole Lovstrom Katie- Catherine Lamb Writer – Jack Thorne Director – Lucy Curtis Running time 1 hour 10 minutes A clever, ambitious, funny and scary piece of theatre, delivered with grit and integrity by a superb actor. A Lamb/Thorne triumph – 5 stars from me. So I usually take the odd discreet note…
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Woman Before A Glass, Jermyn Street Theatre
Lanie Robertson’s 2005 bio-monologue about Peggy Guggenheim could be just another ‘poor rich girl’ tale but in Guggenheim and in the performance from Judy Rosenblatt we see not only a tale of a woman who singlehandedly ensured modern art survived but also changed the way people looked at how art should be. Guggenheim may have…
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