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PLAYHOUSE CREATURES

THE OLD JOINT STOCK

ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE

2nd Year Workshop

FEB 2024

By April De Angelis

The year is 1669 a bawdy and troublesome time. Theaters have just reopened after seventeen years of Puritan suppression. There is a surge in dramatic writing and the first English actresses appear on stage. Playhouse Creatures focuses on six of the most famous (Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall, Doll Common, Mary Betterton and Ms. Barry) to provide a moving and often comic account of the precarious lives of Restoration actresses.

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This production was a second year rehearsal workshop for the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

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