Video transcript: I really enjoyed 1536 at the Almeida Theatre.
It’s a play about three women, all at various stages of relationships. One’s unrequited. One is in a relationship they shouldn’t be in, and one is about to get married.
And it follows them at a time when Anne Boleyn has just been arrested for treason by Henry VIII.
And the news is arriving to them about what’s going on with that in dribs and drabs. And it’s really interesting to see how that affects the people that they live with, the people in the town where they live.
How it impacts them there, and the perception of women and women’s behaviour and what is good women’s behaviour and what is bad women’s behaviour?
Even though it is set in 1536, it’s also interesting to see how little has changed. How it is the women that get slut shamed, but not the men. It’s funny in places. And it’s quite jolly and moves along at a good pace, and I really enjoyed it. I thought it was a really interesting play.
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