Joanna Murray-Smith’s The Female
of the Species is not really my sort of play. It beats you about the head
with relentless feminist diatribe from a variety of viewpoints. Julie Foster’s production
would have benefited from a darker slant in act one but, in fairness, the
action and the lines rarely flagged. Joshua Thompson made for a nice nerdish
husband and Roger Scales, an effete and languid publisher, returned to the Rep
with style. But the undoubted star, not for the first time, was Angela Goss as
the writer with a creative block. From first filthy word to the last, Miss
Goss was magnificent. Roy Hall
Full review to follow
Runs to Saturday 23rd March (Little Theatre, High Street, Dunstable - 7.45pm)
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