Superstar novelist Zadie Smith’s debut play, ‘The Wife of Willesden,’ is an adaptation of Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath.” On every level it rings as a very personal celebration of the polyphony, energy and diversity of Smith’s locale.
set in contemporary Kilburn, north west London, where Smith herself grew up and the setting of her novels,The play, produced in association with A.R.T., was first performed in 2021 at the neighborhood’s Kiln Theatre where Smith herself took acting classes as a child, as part of theborough of Brent’s designation as the capital’s 2020 “London Borough of Culture.” On every level it rings as a very personal celebration of the polyphony, energy and diversity of Smith’s locale.
Perkins plays the dressed-in-siren-red Alvita, the Wife of Willesden—instead of Chaucer’s Alyson—as a woman who has full-heartedly lived, defiantly herself: witty, caustic, sexual, intelligent, survivor, a queen. She takes us through a life of rollercoaster personal drama, defiantly, absolutely not accepting any nonsense from any of the five men she has married, including a husband who is abusive.
However, despite the energy of the actors and every action-injecting effort made by director Indhu Rubasingham, the narrative shifts of the story feel too ranging, unmooring us from Alvita. This is an engagingly written essay and treatise on a woman and women’s independence and insistence on freedom, but as a fully cohering piece of theateris more of a straining effort, no matter the twinned dazzle of Perkins’ performance and Smith’s writing.
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