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Recipe for disaster: what's behind the rise of 50s-style domesticity? by Emine Saner

Fetishised nostalgia for a bygone era of cosy domesticity and bake-offs is dangerous, say the team behind new play Home, I'm DarlingJudy Martin is a proud, archetypal 1950s housewife. She waves her husband, Johnny, off to work in the morning and welcomes him in the evening with a cocktail and his slippers. Except Judy " the heroine of Laura Wade's new play Home, I'm Darling " lives in modern-day Welwyn Garden City an…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM on July 2, 2018

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