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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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At last, theatre that takes on today’s politics

Jessica Turner (Theresa May) and Amara Karan (Gina Miller), stars of Bloody Difficult Women at Riverside Studios.
Jessica Turner (Theresa May) and Amara Karan (Gina Miller), the stars of Bloody Difficult Women at Riverside Studios. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

Nadia Khomami (New play to tell story of Brexit’s ‘bloody difficult women’, 21 February) quotes the actor Jessica Turner – who plays Theresa May in Tim Walker’s play Bloody Difficult Women – as saying the piece feels “very relevant now”.

It has struck me as astonishing that theatre has had so little to say about the current crisis in our politics, but maybe in its enfeebled state after the pandemic – with so many venues now relying on government subsidies – it’s been cowed into submission.

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