5 h. ago ‘I had to think about Andrew Tate. That was miserable’: 150 years of masculinity, all in one play

Revered for her work on Succession and Normal People, Alice Birch has now written an era-spanning play about men, novels and the manosphere. Give me a Brontë any day, she saysEvery word is a wrestling match for Alice Birch. “I find it quite painful,” the award-winning playwright and screenwriter admits. “It’s ugly and horrible. It’s not just pouring out of me. It feels, yeah ” She shrugs in the empty courtyard of London’s Somerset House. “ not very healthy or whatever.”We meet early in the morning as Birch needs to race off to a secret project. She is a sought-after TV writer (on Succession and Normal People) but Birch’s blazing plays are known for their form and fury. Her brutal breakout in 2014, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again, was written in a 72-hour whirl. She wrote her latest, Romans – now on at the Almeida – in around 10 days. “Of course I didn’t ‘write’ it in 10 days,” she clarifies. “I wrote it in eight years. It’s just that the words,” she waves the air around her head, “we...

Politics

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Sport

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Events

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Events

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Events

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Economics

last month HSTikkyTokky is the Andrew Tate loving, 'mega rich finfluencer' who claims to earn £20M

Harrison Sullivan, better known as HSTIKKYTOKKY, claims to be an elite trader using his £20million a year income to fund his lavish lifestyle, but the reality of his life is somewhat more murky.

Economics