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Dull girl power speeches and wild sex do not make Bridgerton a feminist triumph
“We’re seeing this Regency romance through a feminist lens,” proclaimed actor Regé-Jean Page, who plays the hunky-but-tortured Duke of Hastings in Netflix’s bodice-ripper Bridgerton, in a recent interview. Co-star Phoebe Dynevor has also thrown around the F word, saying that … Continue reading
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Tagged black, bridgerton, daphne, female, feminism, feminist, lady whistledown, love, marriage, netflix, penelope, period drama, queen charlotte, review, sex, telegraph, the duke, tv, women
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Noises Off, Lyric Hammersmith
Do not anger the theatre gods, for their vengeance is swift and mighty. On press night of Michael Frayn’s peerless portrait of backstage disasters, the Lyric suffered its own “technical difficulties”, adding a distinctly meta frisson to this already gloriously … Continue reading
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Tagged actors, backstage, bedroom farce, book tickets, broadwayworld, cheap tickets, comedy, director, farce, jeremy herrin, london, lyric hammersmith, meera syal, michael frayn, noises off, review, sex, slapstick, summer, theatre, ticket deal
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Present Laughter, Old Vic
Great Scott! His recent turn as Fleabag‘s Hot Priest made him a global sex symbol. Now, Andrew Scott reminds audiences that he’s just as irresistible on stage, leading Matthew Warchus’s absolute romp of a Noël Coward revival with the kind of panache … Continue reading
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Tagged actor, andrew scott, bisexual, book tickets, broadwayworld, cheap tickets, comedy, farce, fleabag, game of thrones, hot priest, indira varma, london, matthew warchus, noel coward, old vic, play, present laughter, review, romance, sale, save, sex, sophie thompson, summer, theatre, ticket deal, visit london
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When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, National Theatre
Step away from the returns queue. The rare presence of Hollywood star Cate Blanchett on a London stage has caused a box office frenzy, but sadly this would-be provocative vehicle – Martin Crimp’s loose variations on Samuel Richardson’s 1740 proto-novel Pamela, … Continue reading
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Tagged broadwayworld, cate blanchett, celebrity, game of thrones, gender, hollywood, jessica gunning, katie mitchell, london, martin crimp, national theatre, pamela, power, review, s&m, samuel richardson, sex, stephen dillane, when we have sufficiently tortured each other
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Company, Gielgud Theatre
The most thrilling revivals reinvigorate a classic work, while revealing its fundamental soul anew. Marianne Elliott’s female-led, 21st-century take on George Furth and Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 musical company Company makes a bold, inventive statement, but somehow also suggests this is how the … Continue reading
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Tagged being alive, company, family, gay, gender swap, gielgud theatre, jonathan bailey, kids, ladies who lunch, love, marianne elliott, marriage, mel giedroyc, musical, new york, patti lupone, review, romance, rosalie craig, sex, single, sondheim, theartsdesk, west end
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Measure for Measure, Donmar Warehouse
It’s a #MeToo-era Measure for Measure over at the Donmar, with Josie Rourke conducting a fascinating experiment: abridging Shakespeare’s problem play to just over an hour and running it twice, once in period, once in modern dress. And with the … Continue reading
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Tagged book tickets, brett kavanaugh, broadwayworld, donmar warehouse, gender, george soros, hayley atwell, jack lowden, josie rourke, justice, london, measure for measure, metoo, power, review, sex, shakespeare, trump, truth
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Pinter One and Pinter Two, Harold Pinter Theatre
Jamie Lloyd is marking the 10th anniversary of Harold Pinter’s death in remarkable style with his Pinter at the Pinter season, staging all the great man’s 20 short plays, plus some sketches and poetry – grouped into seven productions – at the … Continue reading
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Julie, National Theatre
Polly Stenham’s updating of Strindberg’s Miss Julie moves the action to contemporary London, and finds both contempt and sympathy for this new version of the idle rich. But, shorn of its 19th-century context, the play struggles to make the class transgression feel … Continue reading
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Tagged book tickets, broadwayworld, carrie cracknell, cheap tickets, class, drama, julie, london, miss julie, national theatre, play, polly stenham, race, review, rich, romance, sex, strindberg, theatre, ticket deal, vanessa kirby, visit london
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Summer and Smoke, Almeida Theatre
That this 1948 Tennessee Williams play is rarely performed seems nothing short of a travesty, thanks to the awe-inspiring case made for it by Rebecca Frecknall’s exquisite Almeida production. Aided by the skyrocketing Patsy Ferran, it also makes a case for director Frecknall as … Continue reading
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Tagged almeida, america, london, love, matthew needham, mississippi, patsy ferran, rebecca frecknall, review, romance, sex, summer and smoke, tennessee williams, theatre
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