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Arifa Akbar

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Chief theatre critic at The Guardian / Author of 'Consumed' (2021) and 'Wolf Moon' (2025)
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Some Woman review – Anne-Marie Duff is wholly believable but this twisty drama is not

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By Arifa Akbar Verified
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Opposing forces tug against each other in this new drama as Anne-Marie Duff is magnificent amid playwright Helen Edmundson's implausible plotting. The result is a failed suspension of disbelief yet a convincing central performance. Duff plays Julie, a mother, ex-wife and working woman whose already over-burdened life is turned upside down by an incident at a tube station when an 11-year-old boy randomly and aggressively insults her.
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Some Woman review – Anne-Marie Duff is wholly believable but this twisty drama is not

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By Arifa Akbar Verified
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Opposing forces tug against each other in this new drama as Anne-Marie Duff is magnificent amid playwright Helen Edmundson’s implausible plotting. The result is a failed suspension of disbelief yet a convincing central performance. Duff plays Julie, a mother, ex-wife and working woman whose already over-burdened life is turned upside down by an incident at a tube station when an 11-year-old boy randomly and aggressively insults her.
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Some Woman review – Anne-Marie Duff is wholly believable but this twisty drama is not

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By Arifa Akbar Verified
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Moving, harrowing … Anne-Marie Duff in Some Woman at Dorfman theatre, London. Photograph: Ellie Kurttz Opposing forces tug against each other in this new drama as Anne-Marie Duff is magnificent amid playwright Helen Edmundson’s implausible plotting. The result is a failed suspension of disbelief yet a convincing central performance.
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