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And a nappy new year… - December 2001 The Guardian - By Susannah Clapp - December 31st, 2001
Jerry Springer, trash TV personified, is the perfect subject for satirical treatment You might think twice about putting a nappy fetishist centre stage in an opera. But the very funny, very foul-mouthed, superbly sung Jerry Springer: The Opera did exactly that, and turned out to be one of the most original events staged last year.…
Transvestites, loud guests and Jerry Springer make for unusual opera - October 2001 The Detroit News - By Juliana Koranteng - October 10th, 2001
Opera aficionados beware. A new figure has entered the landscape of music’s most refined genre, and he brings with him the stories of trailer park tragedy and welfare woe. Yes, none other than Jerry Springer — the former Cincinnati mayor who hosts a self-titled talk show on which buxom women exchange violent blows over men…
Impenetrable - September 2001 A reader from Notts - September 7th, 2001
This was a rather disappointing read, pretentiously punctuated with snatches of old native American legend which seemed to carry little relevance or resonance for the jumbled up mish mash of tales in the rest of the novel. A motley assortment of characters are drawn to the same part of the USA in a not-very-interesting way,…