The World's Wife
From: Monday, 11th January 2010
To: Saturday, 6 February 2010
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Synopsis
A series of dramatic monologues taken from Carol Ann Duffy's much-loved book of poems. Taking a wry look at the lives and loves of the wives of historical figures, this humorous event gives a voice to unknowns such as Mrs Pilate, Mrs Darwin and Frau Freud.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 14 January 2010
Linda Marlowe’s solo performances have been one of the great enterprises in our theatre of the past ten years, and her latest, The World's Wife, based on a cycle of poems by the new laureate Carol Ann Duffy, is a brilliant summary of their virtues.
In giving the comic lie to the manly heroes they served and screwed, Marlowe’s women are sly, wicked, clever, beautiful, ecstatic and scheming. And they are presented in a fluent, graceful gallery of physical portraits using just a chair, a couple of scarves and much vocal variety.
It hadn’t occurred to me before how Mrs Freud’s hilarious litany of synonyms for the male member echoes a sketch of Barry Humphries, and Marlowe’s latent Australian inflections are put to good use elsewhere, too.
Her rolling, roaring Mrs Quasimodo is a delightful send-up of her longtime colleague Steven Berkoff, while sexual and simian status is artfully upturned when Mrs Kong holds her ...
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James Seabright (Producer)
Linda Marlowe Productions (Producer)
Di Sherlock (Director)
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