Norman Mailer’s wife comes out of the shadows

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King’s Head Theatre, until 29 November

Solomon and Marion

Print Room at the Coronet, until 29November

‘It’s not as bad as I thought it would be,’ said Norman Mailer to his wife, Norris Church, after reading the first chapters of a novel she wrote in the 1970s. It took her decades to recover from this accolade and the book remained unpublished until 2000.

Here’s a two-handed drama she drafted in the 1980s.

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TaggedAids, Athol Fugard, Go See, J.M. Coetzee, Janet Suzman, King’s Head Theatre, New York, Norman Mailer, Norris Church Mailer, Print Room, Solomon and Marion, South Africa, The Coronet

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Norman Mailer’s wife comes out of the shadows

Solomon and Marion, a new play at the Print Room set in South Africa, whose emotional impact is potent and long-lasting

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