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BWW Interview: Freema Agyeman
The actress talks Doctor Who, Sense8 and making her West End debut in Apologia. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
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Tagged activist, actress, alexi kaye campbell, apologia, book tickets, broadwayworld, cheap tickets, child, discount, diversity, doctor who, female, feminism, feminist, freema agyeman, gay, interview, jamie lloyd, jodie whittaker, laura carmichael, lesbian, lgbtq, liberal, london, mother, netflix, parent, politics, radical, sci fi, sense8, sexuality, son, stage, stockard channing, the doctor, theatre, ticket deal, torchwood, transgender, tv, wachowski, west end
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Touch, Soho Theatre
Neat freaks beware: Touch is your ultimate nightmare. This latest offering from DryWrite, the company that launched the now stratospheric Fleabag, centres on another woman with a chaotic personal life – this time, mirrored by the symphony of filth that is her cramped … Continue reading
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Tagged amy morgan, bdsm, broadwayworld, comedy, drama, DryWrite, female, feminism, feminist, fleabag, kink, london, love, phoebe waller-bridge, play, review, romance, sex, soho theatre, taboo, theatre, touch, vicky jones, welsh, woman
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All Change Please, Lucy Kerbel
Another week, another dispiriting gender equality statistic, as research by The Stage reveals 75% of West End musicals staged in the past decade had no women on their writing teams; removing jukebox shows from the equation, just 9% featured music by female composers. … Continue reading
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Tagged all change please, book, broadwayworld, drama, equality, female, feminism, feminist, gender, girl, kids, lucy kerbel, musical, play, review, theatre, tonic theatre, west end, woman, women, youth
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Nell Gwynn, Shakespeare’s Globe
“Comedy, love and a bit with a dog,” counselled Henslowe in Stoppard’s Shakespeare in Love, and his populist advice is taken to heart in this broad, bawdy, big-hearted farce untroubled by nuanced characterisation or context. Jessica Swale’s modern-language Restoration romp ensures a … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th century, actress, attitudes, backstage, brothel, burbage, charles II, cinderella, comedy, director, drama, dryden, Edward Kynaston, fan, farce, female, feminist, globe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, history, horrible histories, jessica swale, king, mistress, monarchy, nell gwynn, oranges, play, playwright, prostitute, restoration, review, royal, sex, shakespeare in love, shakespeares globe, sing, song, theatre, women, writer
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Casa Valentina, Southwark Playhouse
The “femmepersonators” of Harvey Fierstein’s 1962-set drama would be flabbergasted by today’s level of trans visibility, from Grayson Perry and Caitlyn Jenner to Transparent and Eddie Redmayne’s new film The Danish Girl. Yet it’s the still pertinent issue of private … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, activitist, america, caitlyn jenner, camp, casa valentina, catskills, cross dressing, eddie redmayne, female, gay, gender, grayson perry, Harvey Fierstein, homosexual, kinky boots, male, margaret thatcher, mccarthy, minority, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Rita Hayworth, sex, sixties, southwark playhouse, the danish girl, trans, transgender, transparent, transvestite, visibility
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Di and Viv and Rose, Vaudeville Theatre
Is there any bond more powerful than shared history? If life is the sum total of our experiences, then those who experienced with us will always hold a piece of us – and none more intimate than those formative years … Continue reading
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Tagged Amelia Bullmore, di and viv and rose, drama, female, feminist, friend, friendship, gay, girls, hampstead theatre, jenna russell, lesbian, london, play, review, samantha spiro, sex, student, Tamzin Outhwaite, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre, university, vaudeville theatre, west end, women
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Shutters, Park Theatre
Three striking American plays provide insight into the female experience This is a woman’s world at Park Theatre, where an all-female company tackles three American shorts that place the private feminine experience under a microscope. Jack Thorpe Baker’s casting gambit … Continue reading
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Tagged brooke allen, Cast of Characters, drama, family, female, london, murder, park theatre, Philip Dawkins, play, Pulitzer Prize, review, shutters, Susan Glaspell, the arts desk, the deer, theatre, thriller, trifles, women
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Devilishly funny
Absurd as it may seem, the ‘Are women funny?’ debate rages on. Tina Fey’s Liz Lemon answered emphatically in the affirmative in 30 Rock’s ‘Stride of Pride’ episode – as well as in every other episode of a brilliant comedy series … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 rock, advertising, broadchurch, comedy, comic, female, funny, guardian, isy suttie, jo caulfield, liz lemon, male, man, miranda, miranda hart, reality show, soho theatre, stand-up, stepford wives, theatre, tina fey, woman, women
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