The Bluestocking, vol 113: "Do you feel patronised, as a woman?"
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Happy Friday! Another theatre recommendation this week - last Friday night I went to see Appropriate at the Donmar, a revival of a play first staged in the US in 2014. It's in the vein of All My Sons or The Wild Duck - family secrets suddenly burst into the light. That's a great drama format, because a) what family does not have decades-old beef? b) the drip-drip-BOOM format is dramaturgical gold. You don't have to cycle through small actions that the audience can see to build the tension, but instead you can refer to
The Bluestocking, vol 113: "Do you feel patronised, as a woman?"
The Bluestocking, vol 113: "Do you feel…
The Bluestocking, vol 113: "Do you feel patronised, as a woman?"
Happy Friday! Another theatre recommendation this week - last Friday night I went to see Appropriate at the Donmar, a revival of a play first staged in the US in 2014. It's in the vein of All My Sons or The Wild Duck - family secrets suddenly burst into the light. That's a great drama format, because a) what family does not have decades-old beef? b) the drip-drip-BOOM format is dramaturgical gold. You don't have to cycle through small actions that the audience can see to build the tension, but instead you can refer to