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A Girl and A Gun

Calm, Down Dear Festival, Camden People’s Theatre, London (****)

© Oona Mae

© Oona Mae

A couple of years ago I saw a show called Pretty Ugly headlining the launch of the UK’s first deliciously named Calm, Down Dear, the UK’s first and only festival of innovative feminist theatre. Curated by Jenny Paton and Guardian theatre reviewer, Brian Logan, it was as Logan noted this year, a crazy thing to do given the anti-feminist feeling around at the time. Continue reading