Royal Court theatre, LondonAndrea Dunbar’s unflinching portrait of a world of limited horizons still seems chillingly resonantThis production has had an eventful history. It was yanked out of the Royal Court schedule at a time when the theatre was encouraging people to come forward with stories of sexual harassment and abuse of power. After allegations of censorship, Rita, Sue and Bob Too was quickly reinstated; and quite right too. Andrea Dunbar’s play, described when it first appeared in1982 as “hilariously raunchy”, now strikes me as a bleak and brilliant testament to a life of fleeting pleasure and diminished expectations. Time has a strange effect on plays. We now know too much about the predatoriness of older men to find the opening scene as wildly funny as people seemingly did in 1982. Continue reading…
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