Julie Peakman is a historian and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is a frequent contributor to journals, magazines, and television documentaries on history, culture, sex, and feminism.
She started life in the theatre as an actress and is currently writing her next book (‘Love and Lusts in London’) while working as a librettist developing her books for the theatre.
Those of us who love musicals have eagerly been awaiting new ones, so I was so looking forward to watching ‘Killing the Cat’. It starts simply enough...
This mono drama has been transformed into a sung piece that takes place over the space of a single telephone call between a woman and her former lover...
When eleven year old Alice has an argument with her mum on the platform at Brixton tube station she jumps aboard the train through the sliding doors i...
A young woman bounces onto the stage full of energy and dances her heart out. From then on, this one-women show takes off and keeps its momentum throu...
With a nod to the ‘kitchen-sink dramas’ of the 1960s, Here is set in a dreary kitchen somewhere in the West Midlands, a setting for family arguments a...
A body has been found in the desert outside Taos, New Mexico. It is identified, cremated and the ashes scattered. But is the person who inhabited it...
The Finborough Theatre continues its remarkable remit of presenting only work which has not been seen in London during the last 25 years. In this cas...
I was not sure what to expect of an evening of Flamenco dancing but this was not it. Enter 19 young men dancing their hearts out in a magnificent feat...
Anyone who is a fan of the film South Pacific approaches a new production with some trepidation. Will it be as good? Will the actors pull it off? Will...
