The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonA cavalier meets his match among strong women in Loveday Ingram's carnivalesque production of Aphra Behn's 17th-century comedyAphra Behn is acclaimed as the first professional female writer in English. Her most famous play, written in 1677 as an unashamed celebration of the cavaliers banished during the Cromwellian revolution, is now revived with gusto by Loveday Ingram. Its Spanish carni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AM on September 16, 2016