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Jerry Springer: The Opera - April 2003 The Guardian - By Michael Billington - April 30th, 2003
Reviewing an already acclaimed show is a bit like arriving sober at a party where everyone else is drunk. But everything one has heard about this show in its previous incarnations at Battersea and Edinburgh turns out to be true: it is lewd, rude and outrageous and yet manages to turn trash TV into something…
Jerry Springer: The Opera - April 2003 The Evening Standard - By Nicholas de Jongh - April 30th, 2003
Jerry Springer set to hit more low (operatic) notes - April 2003 Cape Times - April 28th, 2003
London: Jerry Springer – the TV show – has long been a staple of daytime television. While others tackle such weighty issues as the state of the health system, Springer referees an unending army of guests from some weird American hinterland in programmes titled Pregnant by a Transsexual or I Refuse to Wear Clothes. Now,…
The truth about the runcible spoon - February 2003 The Observer - By Susannah Clapp - February 9th, 2003
You’ll Have A Brawl - January 2003 The Sunday Times - By Dan Cairns - January 13th, 2003
Five minutes into a performance of Jerry Springer: The Opera (JS:TO) at the Battersea Arts Centre, in south London, last August, there occurred one of those moments in artistic endeavour when a collective intake of breath is heard from those witnessing it. In part, this was to do with the experimental nature of the evening:…
Jerry Springer makes Musical Sense - December 2002 The Evening Standard - By David Benedict - December 10th, 2002
Ever since Richard Eyre fulfilled Laurence Olivier’s dream by staging Guys and Dolls at the National Theatre in 1982, the venue has been bolstering its finances with splashy revivals of musicals. Vast casts, orchestras and design demands mean that they’re terrifyingly expensive to produce, but success spells box office. Audiences in the past two years…