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There are troubling sections in Her Naked Skin. The treatment of the prisoners is certainly disturbing, but so are some of the questions raised Strong stuff ... Lesley Manville (Celia Cain) and Jemima Rooper (Eve Douglas) in Her Naked Skin at the National Theatre. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Asked for a review of Rebecca Lenkiewicz's play about suffragettes in 1913, I was torn. "Howard Davies' direction is so powerful it knocked me sideways, so much so I wanted it to stop," I could say, adding that six people walked out, as I had wanted to. "It's one of the best plays I've seen for a long time but with scenes so horrific I started cold-sweating, couldn't see, and pushed away my husband's consoling touch for fear I'd scream," perhaps. Or simply: "shattering". My friend went for himself in the end; a woman fainted. Perhaps that... [read full story]
