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Before The Party
Theatre
Almeida Theatre
by Rodney Ackland based on the short story by W. Somerset Maugham | directed by Matthew Dunster | set and costumes by Anna Fleischle
lighting by Philip Gladwell | sound by Ian Dickinson | video by Mark Thomas
Praise for the Work
'As Laura, Katherine Parkinson beautifully captures the despair and resolution of a woman determined not to be caught out with a forced marriage a second time, but the ease with which she glides around designer Anna Fleischle’s gorgeous bedroom set also points to a woman not entirely troubled by the comforts of her upbringing.'
THE STAGE
'The play is set in a pink bedroom in the home counties (the period's tawdry glamour remastered by Anna Fleischle).'
THE OBSERVER
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