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Cumbersome muddle: Women, Beware the Devil, at the Almeida Theatre, reviewed

Plus: at Hampstead Theatre yet another long, screechy mess from a cheerless apprentice writer

Great costumes, sumptuous sets and an intriguing chessboard stage: but that’s where the good news ends for Almeida's new play Women, Beware the Devil. Photo: Marc Brenner  
issue 11 March 2023

Rupert Goold’s new show, Women, Beware the Devil, has great costumes, sumptuous sets and an intriguing chessboard stage like a Vermeer painting. Impressive to look at but that’s where the good news ends. Dramatist Lulu Raczka should have thought twice before writing a script about witchcraft, which was bound to invite comparisons with The Crucible, one of the greatest plays in the theatrical canon.

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