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An engaging demystification of a woman of substance
A big hit in the ’90s, this garrulous story of literary agent Margaret ‘Peggy’ Ramsay has lost none of it’s old charm, writes MARY CONWAY
WELL-MATCHED: Danusia Samal as Tessa, Tamsin Greig as Peggy and Trevor Fox as Henry [Helen Maybanks]

Peggy For You
Hampstead Theatre

 

 

HAMPSTEAD Theatre concludes its recent programme of nostalgic revivals with one of its greatest hits: Peggy For You.

Originally presented by the theatre in 1999, the play is a fine-drawn portrait of literary agent Margaret (known intimately as Peggy) Ramsay whose quaint, quirky  and consciously maverick style rendered her legendary in the folklore and fables of 20th-century British theatre.  

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