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Bryony Lavery's heightened, stylized script features heightened, dialogue and changes the story where it counts Jim Hawkins here is a girl and the production takes a gender-blind approach to casting History is on its side: there were in fact women sailors and female pirates in the 1880s Popular fiction at the time just gender-washed it[...]
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The series will be titled The National Theatre at Home, and they have revealed the first four productions that will be shown. Editorial credit: Claudio Divizia / Shutterstock.com April 2 'One Man, Two Guvnors' by Richard Bean, starring James Corden. April 9 'Jane Eyre', adapted by Sally Cookson. April 16 'Treasure Island', adapted by Bryony Lavery. April 23 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare, starring[...]