London Wall

Synopsis

London Wall is a wryly comic look at the life of women office workers in the 1930s. In a solicitor's office in the City, Brewer, the office manager, sees pretty new 19-year-old typist Pat as fair game. As some of the more experienced secretaries try to warn her, and others leave her to her fate, her steady boyfriend - an idealistic young writer - desperately tries to win her back. Meanwhile, cynical Miss Janus' romantic life seems to be over as she is jilted by her lover at the desperate age of 35...

Our Review:

1 February 2013

In 1931, when John Van Druten’s London Wall was first performed, women in the workplace were still a relatively new phenomenon, and an unsettling one at that. “Work’s work,” an old-timer is reported to have said, “but with women it never can be.”

Sadly it seems to have been a salient observation: for these young women, work is a minor distraction from the real job of getting yourself hitched. “What’s going to happen to me if I don’t pull it off with… what’s-his-name?” Blanche (Alix Dunmore) asks plaintively, not concerning herself with her suitor’s identity or their lack of emotional attachment. It may not tick many boxes in an eHarmony prof...

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jcampbell - 1 February 2013:

First time to this joy of a theatre and all so enjoyed ourselves. What a great revival and couldn't fault the casting. A superb evening for 8 of us...

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