ADC Theatre
Playhouse Creatures
15 July
– 19 July 2014
By April de Angelis
Introduction
The Cast
Production team
The year is 1669 a bawdy and troublesome time. Theatres have just reopened after seventeen years of Puritan suppression.
There is a surge in dramatic writing and the first English actresses appear on stage. Playhouse Creatures focuses on five of the most famous, Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall, Doll Common and Mary Betterton to provide a moving and often comic account of the precarious lives of Restoration actresses. With delicious absurd extracts from the heroic repertory and frantic dressing room scenes, the prevailing tone is comic but you are not allowed to forget the gutter waiting to reclaim these glittering figures.
Venue
ADC Theatre
