The Chesil Theatre, Winchester, presents:

Playhouse Creatures by April de Angelis

Performances: 14th - 19th July 2008. Booking opens 23rd June

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Directed by Sue Hake

1669 - a bawdy and troublesome time and the theatres have just re-opened after seventeen years of suppression under the Puritans, encouraging a great upsurge in dramatic writing.

Of vital importance to the development of drama was the emergence of the first actresses upon the English stage.

• Playhouse Creatures takes five famous figures - Nell Gwynne, Elizabeth Farley, Rebecca Marshall, Doll Common and Mary Betterton -and gives us a fascinating look at the precarious lot of all actresses at that time.

A moving and often comic account of the true lives of Restoration actresses, with some earthy language!

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