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Aphra Behn

‘Or’ a fun feminist farce

When Natacha Roi, playing the real-life Restoration playwright Aphra Behn (1640-89), strides onto the Magic Theatre stage to deliver an elegant prologue that includes the admonishment, “Are all your cell phones off? Yes? Very good” — and ends with the rhyming couplet, “Compose yourselves for pleasure, if you will / Cue the lights, let never time stand still” — there’s absolutely no doubt about it. Read More
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