Women, Beware the Devil (Modern Plays)

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Film includes: Flux Gourmet; Cruella; Rare Beasts; Peterloo; In Fabric; Alice through the Looking Glass; Mr Turner; A Long Way Down; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Kinky Boots; Vera Drake; 28 Days Later; Gosford Park. You’ll also have the opportunity to hear about Evie’s career and journey from the fashion industry to designing for the stage. Women, Beware the Devil will feature set design by Miriam Buether, costume design by Evie Gurney, lighting design by Tim Lutkin, and sound design by Adam Cork. Goold’s staging hurls itself into the brimstone and hellfire hokum of it all with gleeful elan, and visually it is sinfully gorgeous. Yet, in spite of it all, there is something exhilarating about its disruptions, which seem deliberate.

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Primogeniture means that the estate will go to a cousin if her elder brother Edward (Leo Bill) cannot produce an heir. Joining Goold in the creative team are set design by Miriam Buether, costume design by Evie Gurney, lighting design by Tim Lutkin, sound design and music composition by Adam Cork, and casting by Amy Ball. Agnes’ enforced loyalty and avowals of piety are tested to destruction though; she covets the whole kit and caboodle, the better, it transpires, to raze it all, and, with more than a pricking of thumbs (there’s ample simulated blood-letting), gains fiendish, usurping powers. At other times there is a different kind of fumbling under the women’s clothing, and we enter innocent French farce or Carry On territory.I was a year late handing in my play – everyone at the Almeida was very annoyed about it,” she explains, a little rueful. That opening scene is only the first battle of wits and manipulation which we will see unfold between Elizabeth and Agnes. But it’s a little unsatisfying, too, because it attempts to fit so many themes into its span, ones that you would need a TV series to fully unpack.

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When that comes under threat, she elicits the help of Agnes, a young servant suspected of witchcraft. As the play develops and we watch Agnes grow in confidence, desire, and audacity, the conflict between the two characters is stunning to watch, as they lie, scheme, and trick their way into what they want.Film includes: Northern Comfort; Last Christmas; The Fifth Estate; Born of War; Legendary; Archipelago; True True Lie.