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

…Like Sigarev, Stewart Lee is on the crest of a wave. Literally, in the case of his new show, in which he ruminates on the sea-voyage described in Edward Lear’s ‘The Owl and the Pussy Cat’. As director and co-writer of the terrific Jerry Springer: The Opera , Lee has proved a dab hand at…

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…

Jerry Springer: Stage set for more outrage - December 2002 BBC.co.uk - By Bob Chaundy - December 6th, 2002

An opera based on the Jerry Springer talk show is to be staged at London’s Royal National Theatre. The man said by some to epitomise the lowest of low-brow now finds himself at the centre of one of the temples of high culture. Andrea wants to woo her ex-boyfriend Chuck by revealing to him, in…