Annie Wobbler (Revisited) review – Arnold Wesker’s moving women live again
Finborough theatre, London Nichola McAuliffe returns to the roles Wesker tailored for her in 1981, in a trio of wistful and insightful soliloquies about working-class women’s inner thoughts Some years before Alan Bennett spawned Talking Heads , his celebrated televised monologues on the inner lives of solitary women, Arnold Wesker created a trio of short soliloquies for women who speak their thoughts and vulnerabilities aloud in the same wistful manner.
His three-character series, written in 1981 and tailored especially for the actor Nichola McAuliffe, originally began with elderly, homeless Annie Wobbler, who wanders around London’s Waterloo station ruminating on her life in service, the changing world, and what she sees as the ever-rising tide of “foreigners” in it.
Younger women follow, their names variations on Annie’s, and each incorporating a specific question or inquiry into their life.
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