Caroline Horton started her latest solo show All of Me with a string of such grovelling apologies, yelled straight at the audience. She apologised for breaking apart the linear, conventional show she’d originally planned to make, and for the bout of depression that made sewing up a neat narrative impossible.
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While I enjoy the plotlines of many of the stories which the author is sharing, I feel that the information could have been presented in a more condensed manner. It felt almost laborious to read about the angry feminist poet and the apologies of the unsure playwright. I almost wanted to feel their emotions rather than visualize their struggles. The part of the article that struck me the most was when Saville touched on Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Emilia and her encounter with William Shakespeare. When Emilia confronts Shakespeare with the confidence to call him Will and asks about why she cannot be represented equally it is a powerful response she is faced with. We often consider The Bard to be the most well-acclaimed playwright of all time and to hear even from his deft lips the question of why males should stop writing or do anything differently to try and fix a broken system that doesn't affect them is surprising. It is unsettling to think that female playwrights are even dismissed by someone who understands the importance of giving perspectives to the people. Saville found engaging plays to speak about I just wish the execution had been more succinct.
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