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YOU wait years for a play about feminism, and then two come along at once. May I suggest you give Joanna Murray Smith's shrill comedy, The Female of the Species, a miss, and go to Rebecca Lenkiewicz's new play about the suffragettes at the National instead.
Commissioned to mark 90 years since women first won the right to vote, Her Naked Skin is set in 1913 at the height of the suffragette movement. Astonishingly, it is the first original new play by a woman writer to be staged in the Olivier. Half of all tickets will be just [pounds]10 (courtesy of the Travelex Season) to pull in that crucial GCSE audience.See the full content of this document
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Suffragettes for Modern Times ; Her Naked Skin
Her Naked Skin promises real epic sweep, taking us from Holloway Prison to riots in Hyde Park.
The scen...See the full content of this document
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