The play is more a "snapshot" of a moment in time than a "coloured-in portrait", said Arifa Akbar in The Guardian. Still, it ...

Playhouse Creatures at Orange Tree Theatre review: this historical romp is bracing, heady fun - 4/5 Two hours in the company ...

PRETTY WITTY NELL—Clifford Bax—Morrow ($3). Nell Gwyn’s 37 years were not all beer & skittles, but Biographer Bax is of the cheerful opinion that her short life was mostly merry. In a ...

Creatives – or creatures? In the 1660s, women – having been banned from working as actors in previously more puritanical ...

Read our review of Playhouse Creatures at London's Orange Tree Theatre. Directed by Michael Oakley, April De Angelis’s ...

Charles II born 29/5 1630. Nell Gwynne born 2/2 1650. Began selling oranges outside Drury Lane Theatre, Royal Playhouse opened 1663 and at about the age of fourteen became actress. In 1664 Nell ...

This her-story features five women: as well as the king’s mistress, the energetic and feisty Nell Gwyn, the others are Mrs Mary Betterton (senior figure, wife of the leading actor-manager of the ...

King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess ...