RSC Friends

Photograph by Pete Le May.

Alexandra literally bounced into the Friends gathering and greeted the audience warmly. Her stories of trailing around a bamboo cane which in her infant mind was a pet dog soon had the Friends hooting with laughter.

The session moved on to discuss the lack of roles for women once they were over 30 and became a ‘hag’ glumly looking forward to playing Cleopatra and not much else.

Alexandra made light of her considerable and critically acclaimed body of work in theatre, film, and television that she can lay claim to at thirty two years of age.

In the future Alexandra would like to see greater emphasis on little known restoration plays, often written by women and often forgotten. Her enthusiasm nearly succeeded in recruiting her audience as the cast of a future ad hoc RSC production!

A delightful and thoroughly entertaining Friends event.