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Article: Jerry Springer victims sing their hearts out.(Review)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 20, 2002
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Byline: NICHOLAS DE JONGH
Jerry Springer: The Opera Assembly Rooms
RICHARD Thomas has had a flash of original brilliance and Jerry Springer: the Opera, premiered at BAC in 2001, is the weird, witty wonderful result of it.
Heights of satire and salacious amusement are scaled. Thomas has realised the melodramatics of confessional TV talk shows have a kinship with opera's extravagant plots and libretti. He and his director Stewart Lee have taken the lowlife, real-life American product, The Jerry Springer show, and reconceived it as post-modern opera, with his guests singing their guilty secrets in flagrant arias. "My boyfriend doesn't know I'm a ...