A red-haired woman leans beside flowers, bottles and a dressing table while holding up a glass.

Upstairs at The Gatehouse2021

The Funny Girls

The Production

Roy Smiles’ comedy imagines a sharp, witty pre-fame encounter between Barbra Streisand and Joan Rivers, tracing ambition, rivalry and the making of two entertainment legends.

12 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Michael Strassen
Lighting Design: Andrew Exeter
Set & Costume Design: Jean Gray
Sound Design: Dan Samson
Photography: Steve Gregson

A wide view shows a red-haired woman seated at a lit dressing table on a dark stage.

A smiling man in a dark suit stands beside a dressing table set on a dark stage.

A smiling man in a dark suit is lit in blue beside a wooden frame.

A red-haired woman is reflected in a bulb-framed dressing mirror as she raises a compact at a cluttered vanity.

A red-haired woman sits at a vanity holding a cigarette holder in front of a bulb-framed mirror.

A woman in a red-and-black scarf stands beside a dressing table against a dark stage wall.

A woman at a vanity raises a hand to her mouth while holding up a red-covered book in the mirror frame.

A smiling man is reflected in a bulb-framed dressing mirror above a cluttered vanity.

Three women stand in conversation beside a lit dressing table and a large mirror.

Three women pose together beside a dressing table, with the centre woman holding a red-covered book and a glass.

Two women and a grey-haired man lean into a dressing mirror behind fruit, flowers and a champagne bottle.

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