Maxine Peake struggles to make the voice of reason heard in feminist history play History plays should perform a delicate balancing act: they have to tell us something worth knowing about the past, that foreign country where they do things differently, and also something about our current preoccupations. Otherwise, what's the point? So the fact that playwright Lucy Kirkwood, whose Chimerica was a brilliant rocket tha…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 01:42AM on January 23, 2020