{"id":685743,"date":"2026-07-11T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685743\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:48:09","slug":"outhwaite-explains-her-tradwife-character-in-abigails-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685743\/","title":{"rendered":"Outhwaite explains her &#8216;tradwife&#8217; character in Abigail&#8217;s Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former EastEnders actor Tamzin Outhwaite has described her character in a stage adaptation of 1970s play Abigail&#8217;s Party as a &#8220;tradwife, without doing any cooking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The theatre and television performer plays Beverly in Mike Leigh&#8217;s black comedy exploring suburban life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The show completes a run at Theatre Royal Brighton, in East Sussex, on Saturday as part of a national tour, before heading to the West End in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to the BBC, Outhwaite compared her character to an internet subculture, in which online communities promote traditional gender roles, adding that her character &#8220;doesn&#8217;t do anything, she drinks, she smokes, she gets her hair done&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Today, Beverley &#8220;would be an influencer on Instagram, she&#8217;d be on TikTok, she&#8217;d be selling everything&#8221;, said the actor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Outhwaite said the play &#8220;tackles lots of issues&#8221;, adding: &#8220;Set in 1977, you think it would be dated but somehow it&#8217;s really relevant.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former EastEnders actor Tamzin Outhwaite has described her character in a stage adaptation of 1970s play Abigail&#8217;s Party&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}