Top girls in the financial world are the focus of a musical show drawing on David Mamet and Peggy Lee. Its writer and director talk about female antiheroes, how they were inspired by Cate Blanchett and why 'erotic capital' only goes so farTheatre has plenty of male antiheroes, but once you've ticked off Medea, Lady Macbeth and Goneril, antiheroines are in shorter supply, even in contemporary plays. But audiences may …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:13AM on June 29, 2016