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Edinburgh Review: Jerry Springer: The Opera at Assembly Rooms - August 2002 The Stage - By Cameron Robertson - August 15th, 2002
A terrific concept on which to meld high art with trailer trash, Springer’s notorious television show is parodied with considerable aplomb. The first half is straightforward. Similar to the small-screen version, the bizarre studio guests provide the fascination and entertainment. They include a grown man having a tantrum while posing as a self-defeating tot, mullet-haired…
Who Do You Think You Aria? ★★★★★ - August 2002 Fest Magazine - By Helen Pidd - August 7th, 2002
Two things spring immediately to mind when confronted with the title to this show. It’s an opera? Surely it’s just a single joke tenuously stretched over two hours? Don’t be dissuaded. It may have the structure of a conventional opera, and sure, it seems a bit of a one-trick pony at first. However the novelty…
Jerry Springer: The Opera - February 2002 Culture Wars - By James Redick - February 18th, 2002
It’s a tall order to make something that is already an absurdity and parody it without making it cliché and trite. Yet Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee’s Jerry Springer: the Opera is able to do it wonderfully and hilariously. With a witty sense of mockery and sympathy, the two-act play/musical/opera gracefully glides through the foolishness…
Jerry Springer: The Opera ★★★★★ - February 2002 The Mail On Sunday - By Georgina Brown - February 17th, 2002
On the other side of the river, Battersea Arts Centre is becoming another increasingly thrilling powerhouse. Tom Morris’s latest project, still in development, is Jerry Springer: the Opera, a thoroughly modern musical that does something musicals rarelyéfv do: it holds a mirror up to the contemporary world and reveals it to be sick. Witty, inventive,…