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The play that changed my life: Timberlake Wertenbaker on the joy of seeing four normal women on stage by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Pam Gems' revolutionary 1976 play Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi put ordinary, flawed, interesting women at its centre " a reversal of all the plays by men where women are 'the problem' I saw the play on my own, at the Mayfair theatre in London in 1977. There were four women on stage, in very ordinary clothes, in an ordinary flat. That was really unusual. And they weren't elegant. I don't remember thinking, oh, these are ni…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM on May 15, 2025

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