• 17c review – a ponderous evening with Mrs Pepys

    Old Vic, London
    The London diarist’s long-suffering wife, Bess, takes centre stage in this laboriously well-intentioned pieceWhat are we to make of Samuel Pepys, the 17th-century diarist who chronicled his life with a frankness that, even today, has the power to startle? A brilliant administrator who rose to become chief secretary to the admiralty, Pepys describes his bowel movements and the capriciousness of his erections with the same unflinching vividness that he brings to his descripti

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