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Poppy + George review " cross-dressing postwar drama shows we are what we wear by Michael Billington

Watford Palace theatreDiane Samuels' play, set in an East End tailor's, about four characters in search of an identity, produces some fascinating arguments around feminismDiane Samuels, famous for writing Kindertransport (1993), is fascinated by the question of how you achieve a fixed identity in a shifting world. Her new play, set in a Jewish East End tailor's in 1919, suggests postwar women had an unusual power to …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AM on February 19, 2016

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