{"product_id":"a-woman-of-substance-david-evans-enjoys-a-theatrical-depiction-of-wagner-s-second-wife-despite-the-historical-liberties-it-takes","title":"A Woman of Substance: David Evans enjoys a theatrical depiction of Wagner’s second wife, despite the historical liberties it takes","description":"\u003cp\u003eReview of \u003cem\u003eCosima\u003c\/em\u003e, by Sheena Lambert, directed Rex Ryan, Bewley’s Café Theatre, Dublin, 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJ\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thewagnerjournal.co.uk\/products\/the-wagner-journal-july-2026-volume-20-number-2?utm_source=copyToPasteBoard\u0026amp;utm_medium=product-links\u0026amp;utm_content=web\"\u003euly 2026, Volume 20, Number 2\u003c\/a\u003e, 92–3.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFew people would describe Cosima Wagner (née Liszt) as warm and cuddly, or even as a particularly sympathetic human being. Photographs and most contemporary accounts depict her as stern, aloof and rather arrogant. However, as portrayed by Mary Murray in Sheena Lambert’s one-woman play \u003cem\u003eCosima\u003c\/em\u003e we are presented with a misunderstood, witty and mischievous closet feminist, badly treated by her father, married off to a dullard and only coming into her own as Richard Wagner’s not particularly secret lover and later, his second wife. The performance is striking from the start.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Wagner Journal","offers":[{"title":"Individual","offer_id":54364931916118,"sku":null,"price":2.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Institution","offer_id":54364931948886,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/thewagnerjournal.co.uk\/products\/a-woman-of-substance-david-evans-enjoys-a-theatrical-depiction-of-wagner-s-second-wife-despite-the-historical-liberties-it-takes","provider":"The Wagner Journal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}