Gypsy Rose Lee

Photos and podcast: Post-show Q&A with Britten in Brooklyn’s writer, director and star Sadie Frost
Photos and podcast: Post-show Q&A with Britten in Brooklyn’s writer, director and star Sadie Frost

Photos and podcast: Post-show Q&A with Britten in Brooklyn’s writer, director and star Sadie Frost

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-28T17:41:38+00:009 September 2016|Tags: Benjamin Britten, Britten in Brooklyn, Carson McCullers, Gypsy Rose Lee, Holly Kendrick, Jimmy Jewell, John Hollingworth, Oli Rose, Ruby Bentall, Ryan Sampson, Sadie Frost, Terri Paddock events, W H Auden, Wilton's Music Hall, Zoe Lewis|

A New York artistic commune in the early 1940s - occupied by British exiles Benjamin Britten, WH Auden, American novelist Carson McCullers (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter) and stripper Gypsy Rose Lee amongst many other artists - is the setting for Zoe Lewis' new play Britten in Brooklyn.