Nine Lives Ten Tales
First Prize Award Edinburgh Festival 1997
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About
Nine Lives Ten Tales by Lil Warren. An awarded play about the life of a woman in the East End of London. Performed at the Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), London, the Edinburgh Festival and other London venues including, The King’s Head, The Studio Theatre (Surrey) and The Knives and Hens.
Credits
By: Lil Warren
Direction: Elli Papakonstantinou
Dates
August 1997
Edinburgh Festival
United Kingdom
March - April, 1998
Battersea Arts Centre
London, United Kingdom
Gallery: Nine Lives Ten Tales
Reviews
Claire Smith, The Scotsman, 18.08.1997
If you can imagine Stephen Berkoff as a working-class woman, you have some idea of this piece’s power…
Anne Donald, The Herald
Deftly imaginatively and with awe-inspiring force…
Arlene Stewart, BBC Radio, Scotland
Mixes sheer entertainment with a deep, personal and social observation…
Hettie Judah The Times | 20.05.1998
Wonder Woman:
What is most striking is the physical bravery of the performance…
Ruby Williams What’s On | 10.05.1998
A highly memorable show…
Nick Curtis & Nicholas de Jongh The Evening Standard | 02.04.1998
As the song has it, R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Respect