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All Hands on Deck, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield/Touring
Unconvincing plot torpedoes exploration of naval women's contribution in WWII
Admirable: The cast of All Hands on Deck
[Peter Boyd]
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
VASHTI MACLACHLAN’S last play Revolting Women was all about women’s suffrage and now she turns her attention to other trailblazing females.
All Hands on Deck, her new production for Mikron, pays tribute to those who served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service (Wrens).
Following the career of Ginger (Elizabeth Robin) and Lily (Rachel Benson), it explores how their friendship is strained by their different roles and attitudes towards war.
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