Articles about Theatre
Her Naked Skin
Hazel Tsoi-Wiles reviews a production of Her Naked Skin, a suffragette romance which whisks the audience back to a time of protest on the street, activists smashing windows and police clamp-downs
Hazel Tsoi-Wiles // 23 December 2011
Categories: Theatre
Penelope
Waiting for 20 years for Odysseus' return, Penelope is an emblem of marital fidelity and has always provided plenty of material for reinterpretations, feminist or otherwise. Kate McCarthy reviews the latest, which dumps the suitors in a dried out swimming pool
Kate McCarthy // 28 February 2011
Categories: Theatre
Women, Power & Politics: Now
Laura Nelson reviews this collection of short plays at London's Tricycle theatre
Laura Nelson // 17 July 2010
Categories: Theatre
Women, Power & Politics: Then
Kate McCarthy reviews a collection of short plays at the Tricycle
Kate McCarthy // 11 July 2010
Categories: Theatre
Viva la vagina
Jessica Gjergji is blown away by a performance of The Vagina Monologues at the Bristol Old Vic
Jessica Gjergji // 4 July 2010
Categories: Theatre
Macbeth
Yasmin Eshref reviews a version of Macbeth set in the 1970s with an all-female cast
Yasmin Eshref // 26 May 2010
Categories: Theatre
Feminism and Peter Pan
JM Barrie's creation Peter Pan has an enduring popularity. Allison McCarthy digs into the sexist and racist history of the play and novel, and how this has been addressed in modern adaptations
Allison McCarthy // 19 April 2009
Her Naked Skin
Rebecca Lenkiewicz's take on the suffrage movement hinges on a clichéd story of forbidden love between seamstress Eve Douglas and Lady Celia Cain. Debi Withers is exasperated
debi withers // 7 September 2008
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