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Saturday, 16 November 2019

The Wife of Willesden

The Kiln Theatre is staging an updated version of the Wife of Bath's Tale by Zadie Smith who likes using Brent as a location.  It will be interesting to compare it to Wife, which was staged earlier in the year.

The latter was a play set in 1959, 1989 and 2019 with three different scenarios taking Ibsen's A Doll's House as a starting point.  Indhu Rubasingham record includes directing a production of a Doll's House in the past.  The Chaucer tale is a reminder that depictions of assertive women are nothing new.

It is being produced as part of the wider Borough of Culture programme.  

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