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Friday, April 11, 2025

In Shanghai Dolls, Madame Mao’s life story of art, revolution and resentment is undone by clichés by Ella Duggan

This real-life tale of Mao’s wife and the first female director of China fails to meet its own potential

SOURCE: The Independent at 05:06AM

Friday, February 21, 2025

Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig play a mother and daughter through the ages in the bittersweet Backstroke by Ella Duggan

In between the duo’s crackling chemistry, Anna Mackmin’s new play captures the universal pain of missing someone before they’re gone

SOURCE: The Independent at 06:48AM

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