Playhouse Creatures

The year is 1669, a bawdy and troublesome time.

Theatres have just reopened after seventeen years of Puritan suppression.

There is a huge surge in dramatic writing and the first English actresses appear on stage!Playhouse Creatures focuses on five of these women - Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall, Doll Common and Mary Betterton - to provide a moving and often comic account of the precarious lives of these pioneering actresses.An incredible ensemble piece with 5 powerhouse female roles!With deliciously absurd extracts from the heroic repertory and frantic dressing-room scenes, the prevailing tone is comic but you are not allowed to forget the gutter waiting to reclaim these glittering figures." Independent on SundayThe matinee performance on Saturday 27 June will be a Relaxed Performance.