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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,…
Jerry Springer: The Opera - February 2002 The Sunday Telegraph - By Malcolm Hayes - February 10th, 2002
It’s confession time. Yes, I admit to having watched that phenomenon of trash television, The Jerry Springer Show. It was (quite) a long time ago and it only happened (just about) once. Truly nothing in life is wasted, however, because the experience turned out to have been useful advance homework on Jerry Springer: The Opera…