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Brutal and brilliant portrait of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford

Plus: a new play suggests Liz Truss might be making a comeback

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A brilliantly acted show, full of spite, gossip, cruelty and slander: Bette (Greta Scacchi) and Joan (Felicity Dean) at Park90.  Simon Annand
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 04 January 2025
issue 04 January 2025

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The Last Days of Liz Truss? is a one-woman show about the brief interregnum between Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak. We first meet the future prime minister at a nursery school in Paisley where she orders the teachers to call her Elizabeth and not to use her first name, Mary.

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