Read more about the article REVIEW: The Unfriend, Criterion Theatre (2023)
Frances Barber as Elsa, Amanda Abbington as Debbie and Reece Shearsmith as Peter. (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: The Unfriend, Criterion Theatre (2023)

Lowest Comedy Dominator "You could snap a proctologist off at the knuckle! "Elsa Frances Barber as Elsa, Amanda Abbington as Debbie and Reece Shearsmith as Peter. (Photo: Manuel Harlan) It…

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Read more about the article REVIEW: The Wife of Willesden, Kiln Theatre (2021)
Clare Perkins as Alvita (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Wife of Willesden, Kiln Theatre (2021)

Yet large chunks of her Control Your Man toolkit are given to Alvita to voice without apparent irony or comment. Marry for money, Treat them mean, Deceive them, Shame them, Make them work hard at sex, (which for her appears to be exclusively heteronormative).  Above all, Take control. She nearly loses control over the Fifth husband, but finally breaks him and takes it back.

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