One Hand Tied Behind Us: Betsy; Contactless review " emphatic monologues
Old Vic, London; available onlineSolo voices reverberate in these archive performances of Maxine Peake's play about a woman in prison, and Ella Hickson's roaming story of escape I have often felt glum about International Women's Day: it is such an othering notion that we/they need to be celebrated as if we were an event on the brink of oblivion, like an armistice. Yet it's a salutary reminder of how far there is to g…