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It's almost 100 years since Sophie Treadwell's expressionist play hit the stage, following the real-life events she witnessed as a journalist (though never wrote them up for a newspaper). Instead, she turned the life and death of Ruth Snyder into an explosive drama, an exploration of the human condition and how one woman was tormented by modern life into insanity and murder. In fact, when we first meet the unnamed Young Woman, she is already clearly fragile, struggling to cope with the crowds on the underground. When she arrives – late again – at the office she is just as clearly...
Sexually repulsed by her spouse, the affair is the Young Woman’s only source of hope
Compelling drama based on the fate of an American housewife sentenced to death for the murder of her husband is imaginatively staged
Compelling drama based on the fate of an American housewife sentenced to death for the murder of her husband is imaginatively staged