Rosemary Hill
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490 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Rosemary Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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because there's no way of dimming the lights.
You either have the candles are either lit or they're out.
And so it's a very I mean, again, Peeps is a great a great witness to all this, that people go to the theatre
There are um seats right on the stage and all around the actors.
And there seems to be from Peeps' account I mean, people are complaining today about people talking and eating all through the performance, but I think it's pretty much standard.
And the idea which we t touched on last time of course of the mask and all these scenic effects which you can do.
Is developing at the same time as acting is developing, and not only are the women on the stage.
Since Charles came back.
but also writing most famously Afro Ben
But she wasn't the she was the most famous and perhaps the most prolific of the women playwrights, but there were others.
And I think it's it's curious to think
Virginia Wolfe has that great thing in the Room of One's Own about what would have happened to Shakespeare's sister if he'd had one, and her answer is that, you know, it would have been a disaster and she ends up buried at the Elephant and Castle.
Um but actually if she had been Afro Ben's contemporary, she might have had quite a good career.
Well, poetry of course is um an indoor thing and clean hands and so on.
I mean, one gets the impression that i you could have a career as a playwright, but that would mean that you were
To some extent anathematized as a woman.
I mean it would be as indeed if you were an actor as a woman, you would be um automatically assumed to be virtually a prostitute as well.
Um Anaphra Bendel wasn't only um a a playwright, she had quite a career and w a slightly sort of corkscrew career.
She was sent
as a spy by Charles II to infiltrate um expatriate English communities in the lowlands, find out what they were thinking and what they were up to.
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