Ruth Leon recommends… Bloody Difficult Women – Wind of Change
Ruth Leon recommendsBloody Difficult Women – Wind of Change
8 April – 3 May
This is an on demand streaming of journalist Tim Walker’s new play Bloody Difficult Women. The drama sees the tumultuous political events of recent years played out in a power struggle between two determined women. It is inspired by the successful court case business woman Gina Miller brought against Prime Minister Theresa May in 2016, an action aimed at upholding the sovereignty of the UK parliament, and has a final climatic scene set in the present.
Walker’s intensely human account makes for revealing and often very funny theatre, but ultimately, it’s a tragedy, where there are no winners, only losers. It brings the story up to date in a dramatic finale which says so much about the deep divisions we still have in the UK.
The production is directed by Stephen Unwin and stars Calum Finlay, Amara Karam as Gina Miller, Edmund Kingsley, Graham Seed, Jessica Turner as Theresa May, and Andrew Woodall as tabloid newspaper editor Paul Dacre.
Isn’t Tim Walker notoriously a marauding Twitter pile-on merchant the days? BBDS? (Brexit and Boris Derangement Syndrome? Yikes.