‘Female survival in a terrifying world’: Tilda Swinton’s return in Man to Man
Manfred Karge’s play about a woman acting as her dead husband was a cause célèbre in the 80s. It remains a bracing portrait of a divided person in a divided cultureIt was Pierre Audi, the much-mourned founder of the Almeida, who way back in 1986 sent me a coffee-stained copy of Jacke wie Hose.Manfred Karge’s one-woman play is a study of female survival in a terrifying world. Ella is a working-class woman who ta…