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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ella Duggan

1536 turns Anne Boleyn’s downfall into a witty, wrenching parable of girlhood

Siena Kelly and Liv Hill in ‘1536’ - (Helen Murray)

​​“I will be a good woman.” “How can you, when they keep changing the definition?”

What happens when the most powerful woman in the country is suddenly reminded that, after all, she is still just a woman? That’s the question at the beating heart of 1536, Ava Pickett’s razor-sharp, darkly comic and blisteringly relevant new play at the Almeida Theatre.

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