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ALISON NEIL
Nationality: British
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Shakespeare Ladies Club, The - Tales of Georgian LondonShakespeare Ladies Club, The - Tales of Georgian London
Synopsis:
here is something rather fitting about seeing this play on Georgian London in a historic setting such as Hall Place. One can imagine the real Mrs Cowper De Grey, all lace cuffs and piled-high curls, wandering the panelled rooms admiring the Englishness of it all.Mary Cowper De Grey was a Lady of Quality in a period where pride in all things English equated to an act of patriotism to the homeland: it was a country at war and at the centre of an expanding trading empire, enlightened and on the verge of industrial revolution. Her character is the vehicle through which we learn the true story of a group of gentlewomen who form a club to promote the then unfashionable work of Shakespeare "for the sake of England", and whose work culminates in the provision of a monument to the Bard that is bigger than that to Milton as a point of political point scoring. the tale of the Shakespeare Ladies Club is more than a theatre documentary though; it is an entertaining insight into the privileged side of Georgian society and a delightfully jaunty biography of Mary herself, brought up to be a good natured ornament, "unburdened by knowledge", whose story reveals a tenacious and resourceful character hidden under the decoration.
- Sandra Giorgetti, British theatre Guide
- Sandra Giorgetti, British theatre Guide
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Hall Place, Bexley 2009
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