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''Keeler'' is a play written by Gill Adams, based on
Christine Keeler Christine Margaret Keeler (22 February 1942 – 4 December 2017) was an English model and showgirl. Her meeting at a dance club with society osteopath Stephen Ward drew her into fashionable circles. At the Cold War (1953–1962), height of the ...
's 2001 autobiography ''The Truth At Last: My Story'', and is described as being produced with her 'sanction and involvement'.


Productions

The play was produced at
Upstairs at the Gatehouse Upstairs at the Gatehouse is an Off West End theatre in Highgate in the London Borough of Camden. The venue is a refurbished 1895 auditorium, upstairs from the Gatehouse pub, which has served over the years as a music hall, cinema, Masonic lod ...
in 2007, the Richmond Theatre in 2011 and the
Charing Cross Theatre The Charing Cross Theatre is an Off West End theatre under The Arches off Villiers Street below Charing Cross station. Founded in 1936, the venue occupied several premises in the West End of London before locating to its present site. The cur ...
,
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in 2013. The Charing Cross production ran from 31 October to 14 December.


Cast


2013 Crew


Critical reception

The play has received mixed reviews. One, described the play as a 'dud', but another while pointing out that the factual accuracy of the play is uncertain (because 'We can't be sure what really happened'), said that if 'judged purely as drama...it works admirably.'


References

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