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Chloe Wade Productions announces a stellar cast for its debut theatre tour, As SHE Likes It ,inspired by what is perhaps the best-suppressed scandal in Hollywood history.
Hollyoaks alumni, Krupa Pattani (Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Without Sin, Silent Witness) will be playing Damsel In Distress. Lucy Tuck (Sleeping Beauty, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Macbeth) who just entertained audiences in the Christmas Production of The Selfish Giant, will play Leading Lady. Tanika Yearwood (Emilia, Love Reign, A Midsummer Night's Dream), hot off the stage from a season at The Globe will play Sex Symbol. Stacey Evans (Macbeth, Cold Feet, Vera) who recently performed her début solo show, Hanging Around, will star as Screwball Comedy Queen and Chloe Wade (The Snow Queen, Three Sisters, Doctors) in what will be her writing debut, will head the production as Girl Next Door.
In 1937, 20-year-old Patricia Douglas was brutally attacked and sexually assaulted at an MGM party. Taking on Hollywood's most powerful institution, the dancer filed charges which were swiftly dismissed and silenced. Three generations later, through a fusion of live theatre and filmed footage, As SHE Likes It exposes the cultural legacy of sexism and exploitation that still haunts the industry today.
Join Damsel in Distress, or as she prefers to be known - her own knight in shining armour - as she removes the rose-tinted filter to reveal the truth behind the romanticised facade. A Leading Lady who's hiding her sexuality. A Sex Symbol who's suppressing her appetite. A Comedy Queen who's disguising her sadness with humour and a starry-eyed Girl Next Door who's discovering what it really takes to make it in Hollywood.
Created by writer and actor Chloe Wade, As SHE Likes It is a darkly comedic, queer, contemporary Brechtian-style play that uses live theatre and filmed footage to pose the question: How much has changed between the Hollywood of yesteryear and now?
It's time that the story of #MeToo pioneer Patricia Douglas and the stories of the many women whose voices have been silenced are told in all their intersectional complexity and fullness.
Be prepared to kiss the Hollywood happy ending goodbye!
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