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Category: Feminism

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  Medea @sohoplace theatre review *****

  Medea @sohoplace, 17thh March 2023 April 431 BCE. Day 5. City Dionysia. Athens. Aeschylus’s boy Euphorion has already paraded his dramatic wares as has arch-rival (and more successful) Sophocles. Euripides rocks up with his 3 tragedies, Dictys (no, me neither), Philoctetes (misanthropic soldier, later a winning tale for Sophocles) and,…

  March 21, 2023
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  Catching up (Part 3)

  April 2020 to December 2020 In which the Tourist condenses down 2020, in and out of lockdown, mostly watching stuff on a screen. Don’t worry he also took walks, saw punters when permitted and growled at the state of his disappointing nation, but it is only now he is back…

  November 5, 2021
• Agency Class Culture Family Feminism London Patriarchy Theatre

  Nora: A Doll’s House at the Young Vic review ****

  Nora: A Doll’s House Young Vic Theatre, 10th February 2020 It is not difficult to see why theatre-makers, and audiences, continue to be drawn to drawn to Ibsen’s masterpiece, now over 140 years old. First and foremost, there is the still extraordinarily powerful message. Just think what old Henrik would…

  May 27, 2020
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  Faustus: That Damned Woman at the Lyric Hammersmith review ***

  Faustus: That Damned Woman Lyric Hammersmith, 5th February 2020 I bet Chris Bush was good at English at school and maybe beyond. In the precis question. For she has an unerring eye/ear/pen for taking complicated/contentious/convoluted issues and dramas and rendering them explicable, topical and entertaining. Kicking off with TONY! The…

  April 25, 2020
• Culture Feminism Georgian History Justice London Patriarchy Suffolk Theatre

  The Welkin at the National Theatre review ****

  The Welkin National Theatre Lyttleton, 4th February 2020 Rural Suffolk. 1759. A court case. There was only ever going to be one companion for the Tourist’s visit to see The Welkin. Step forward MS. A Tractor Boy by upbringing, if not birth, and an expert on all things legal and…

  April 23, 2020
• Culture Family Feminism London Relationship Theatre

  Hedda Tesman at the Minerva Theatre Chichester review ***

  Hedda Tesman Minerva Theatre Chichester, 26th September 2019 This counts as a disappointment. Not because of the source material. Hedda Gabler for goodness sake. Nor the cast though I will come back to this. There were plenty of actors on show, Haydn Gwynne, Anthony Calf, Jonathan Hyde, Natalie Simpson and…

  November 3, 2019
• Colonialism Culture Feminism India London Power Theatre

  A Doll’s House at the Lyric Hammersmith review *****

  A Doll’s House Lyric Hammersmith, 18th September 2019 You can never have too much Nora. After Samuel Adamson’s gender fluid Wife at the Kiln, and this adaptation from Tanika Gupta set in colonial India, the Tourist has the 3 for the price of 1, Glasgow Citizens, radical re-working from Steff…

  October 29, 2019
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  Faith Ringgold at the Serpentine Galleries review ****

  Faith Ringgold Serpentine Galleries, 22nd August 2019 Once again it has taken the Tourist way too long to gather his thoughts on something he has seen. Which means this snappy retrospective of the work of Africa- American artist has now finished. Sorry. It was Very Good. I guess that doesn’t…

  October 7, 2019
• Business Capitalism Culture Edwardian Family Feminism London Power Theatre

  Rutherford and Son at the National Theatre review ****

  Rutherford and Son National Theatre Lyttleton, 16th May 2019 It is not difficult to see what Githa Sowerby’s photo feminist play from 1912, and brought back to life at the Royal Court by feminist theatre company Mrs Worthington’s Daughters in 1980, now has such a secure place in the repertory.…

  June 7, 2019
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  Top Girls at the National Theatre review ****

  Top Girls National Theatre Lyttleton, 4th April 2019 OK. So I might have oversold this one. It is still Caryl Churchill. With that extraordinary opening act. And that carefully calibrated feminist message, as relevant now as it was when it first appeared in 1982, of how to balance “success” in…

  April 21, 2019