Event | Calamity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Glasgow Citizen's Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Date | 24 April 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Date | 5 May 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status | Professional | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Premiere | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Part of a Tour | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | 'Monstrous Regiment's latest show is frothy, enjoyable and irritating all at once. It tells the story of three pioneer women: Quiet Kate, a sweetie-pie with the voice of a canary and a penchant for psalms and samplers; Madame Mustache, named for the hair on her upper lip and for her rolling r's; and Calamity Jane, a hard-drinking cussed version that puts paid to Hollywood notions of bouncing curves in clinging buckskins. They're all thrown together on a wagon trail across the Badlands and their only common ground is a trio of dark pasts and employment in a Wild West Show. It's a nice idea to portray their developing friendship, but although Bryony Lavery has an excellent ear for one-liners, pastiche and bizarre detail, she's weak on character and plot. And unfortunately Nona Shepphard's static production compounds the problem by neither doing justice to the play's serious themes (solitude, friendship, death) nor its cabaret format of rope tricks, magic and songs [...]. Still there are enough tantalising tit-bits (tales of card-sharping, whoring and murder) to spice it up.' (Time Out) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description Source | Reviewer's Opinion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secondary Genre |
Cabaret
Play with Music |
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Subjects |
American
Pioneer settlement Women Women's Issues |
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Text Nationality | England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production Nationality | England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Event Identifier | 131414 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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