MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties
Southwark Playhouse
ABSURDIST, funny, affecting and intelligent, Collective Rage is a wonderfully inventive piece of theatre.
US playwright Jen Silverman’s script, tightly directed here by Charlie Parham, interrogates the social rules that shape women and the actions it might take to break them via five personas named Betty.
They're a pleasingly mixed bunch. One is watching the news and learning to fight, another is lonely but willing to explore while a third is is going to leave her job at a cosmetics outlet and become the voice of her generation.
GEORGE FOGARTY is dazzled by a breathtakingly skillful puppet version of Shakespeare’s greatest love poem
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends an inspiring, political and bittersweet account of the munitions factory workers who are the fore-runners of the modern women’s game
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about a two-handed theatrical homage to jazz’s most mercurial musician
Given the tawdry push and pull around disability benefits, MATTHEW HAWKINS relishes Dan Daw’s defiant celebration of body and sexuality


