Sex, Happiness and Violence: Editor's Choice - Theatre

Sex, Happiness and Violence: Editor's Choice - Theatre

03 June, 2011
by: Naima Khan

Every Friday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week ahead. Naima Khan selects her top three plays.


From 7th June 

A Cavalier for Milday @ Jermyn Street Theatre 
Tennessee Williams thoughts on his own emotionally deprived family form the basis of A Cavalier for Milady. It focuses on his mother's part in his sister's misery. The story follows a young woman obsessed with the apparition of a male ballet dancer while her mother indulges herself in hedonistic evenings with male escorts.

From 7th June 
The Female of the Species @ Bridewell Theatre 
Inspired by an incident in 2000 when Germaine Greer was help captive in her house by a 19-year-old woman, The Female of the Species is a dark satire that sees a feminist author attacked by a former student. 

From 10th June
Mr Happiness and The Water Engine @ Old Vic Tunnels
A double bill of David Mamet plays features the story of Charles Lang who creates a machine so fantastical it has the power to change the world. Lang soon finds that with something so great on his hands, there are few people he can trust.  Mr Happiness is a radio host who answers the very personal questions sent to him by his listeners.




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