The Busy Body Review: 'Theatre of the Real'

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The Busy Body Review: 'Theatre of the Real'

The Busy Body (1709) is one of the many plays written by Susanna Centlivre. Centlivre is often referred to by critics and historians as the most successful female writer on the 18th-century English stage and yet, to most of us, her name means nothing. The times that The Busy Body has been performed in the past hundred years can be counted with one hand.  The team at Oxford’s Creation Theatre, in partnership with Orange Tree Theatre, are here to …