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Front Row: Withnail and I on stage, Women & Art at Tate Britain, Alan Murrin

Withnail and I on stage, Women & Art at Tate Britain, Alan Murrin

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Withnail and I on stage, 400 years of women in art, Alan Murrin on Ireland before divorce

Withnail & I adapted for the stage by Bruce Robinson, Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520 to 1920 at Tate Britain, Alan Murrin's novel on Irish women trapped by marriage

Bruce Robinson has written a stage adaptation of his cult 1987 film Withnail And I - a tragicomedy that evokes the end of an era as the 60s give way to 70s and dreams collide with reality in the lives of the two main characters.  The play has just opened at the Birmingham Rep, directed by Sean Foley. Both of them talk about the challenges of adapting and staging a much loved classic and the degree to which it needed to remain true to the original.

Now You See Us - an exhibition spanning 400 years of women in art - opens at Tate Britain this week.  Art critic Charlotte Mullins and art historian and biographer Frances Spalding give their verdict on how the collection represents the pioneers from Angelica Kauffman to Laura Knight.

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