Two Women

Synopsis

Two Women is an explosive play about East End violence and the pursuit of justice against all odds. Danger and violence have always been part of Sue Dalston's East End upbringing. Unloved by her mother, abused by her father and brutalised throughtout her entire marriage, all that keeps her sane is knowing that her children are safe from harm...

Our Review:

3 March 2010

“Your father is a scummy, devious, violent bastard, but he’s all I’ve ever wanted.” This early line neatly summarises the flavour of the play adapted by Patrick Prior from Martina Cole’s novel of the same name. The world we inhabit in this two-hour dramatisation of a 600-page blockbuster is one where it is almost routine for fathers to rape their teenage daughters and to beat and betray their wives without batting an eyelid.

Two Women was originally based on the fact that in one week in the 1990s, two women from very different backgrounds were on trial for murdering their husbands. So, essentially, this is a story about injustice and the class divide. The two female murderers in this play are downtrodden but resilient Susan (Cathy Murphy), who has apparently bludgeoned her husband to death with a hammer after years of abuse, and condescending, middle-class Matty (Laura Howard), who knifed her husband because he wa...

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Jane Evans - 5 March 2010:

I saw this show on Wednesday the 3rd of March and thought is was fantastic. The actors were very convincing. I would thoroughly recommnd this play....

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