Mrs Warren's Profession
A play about morality, hypocrisy and women’s place in a capitalist world, despite being well over a century old and in Victorian dress (written in 1893 and banned from performance until 1925) many of the arguments being made in this play could be happening today. Vivie (Bessie Carter) is a modern young woman and has just graduated from Cambridge, with plans for a professional career. Her mother (Imelda Staunton) has been largely absent due to travel and business affairs but today she pays a visit, expecting her daughter to conform to becoming a genteel young woman and marry well. Staunton as Kitty is as impressive as you would expect. I loved the mix of grand airs all being undercut slightly by the London twang underlying her accent. The four men appearing in the play are a mix of entitled, arrogant, selfish, immoral, venal or just plain unpleasant. Robert Glenister (excellent as Sir George Crofts)is the embodiment of grasping bullying capitalism, we ...