Initially, Foul Pages has a surfeit of innuendo, as the actors revel in saucy banter. However, once things settle down, Foul Pages reveals itself to be about the love of acting and what it was like for the boys who played all the female roles.
‘It just isn’t funny or bawdy enough’: FOUL PAGES – Hope Theatre ★★
Foul Pages, not as funny, original or inspired as it likes to think it is, runs at the Hope Theatre, Islington.
‘Something exciting and anarchic’: FOUL PAGES – Hope Theatre
In its exploration of artistic compromise and the perils of pursuing both sexual and political freedom, Foul Pages makes for strange eventful history.
‘Doesn’t quite know which way to turn’: FOUL PAGES – Hope Theatre ★★★
If the conflicting obsessions of the characters and the murkiness of the plot in Foul Pages at the Hope Theatre were more brightly illuminated, this could be a sustained and hilarious evening, but the author has given it pretentions also to be a serious drama.