Category: Gender
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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…
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Ladykiller at the Vault Festival review ****
Ladykiller, The Thelmas Vault Festival, 3rd March 2019 Blimey. The Thelmas, director and founder Madelaine Moore and writer Guleraana Mir, together with the writer here, Madeline Gould, aren’t pulling any punches here. The company is “dedicated to the development and promotion of early career female writers and theatre makers”. They…