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Machinal review " spare yet shocking revival of 1920s play on female criminality by Arifa Akbar

Theatre Royal, BathAn excellent cast give the story of Ruth Snyder, a woman executed by electric chair in 1928 for killing her husband, a cleverly inventive, chillingly modern update Ruth Snyder's crime was sensationalised in its day and well after it. An American who murdered her husband and paid with her life, her very public death in 1928 by electric chair has served as gruesome inspiration for, among others, Bill…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PM on October 31, 2023

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