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- 3?accountid=15842 accessdate "2013-11-05".
- 3?accountid=15842 date "1994-06-09".
- 3?accountid=15842 isCitedBy Allan_Sharpe.
- 3?accountid=15842 newspaper "The Guardian".
- 3?accountid=15842 quote "Plays within plays, plots within plots, genres within genres – Fifth Estate's new production, of Allan Sharpe's boisterous satire, is a splendidly multi-dimensional affair, in which the story of Europe's last commedia dell'arte troupe trying to stage a performance in Edinburgh is used to comment pointedly on the plight of theatre in Britain. Since its 1988 premiere, the play has acquired even greater resonance, as Sharpe's updated references and a vitriolic rant in the programme about government/Arts Council "repression through financial control" make emphatically clear. The production's central strength, however, is its understanding that "anger is an energy", rather than necessarily an end in itself: the piece crackles with that energy. The tale is cleverly complex in structure: a performance by the company is raided by a corrupt but ostensibly puritanical city burgher, who denounces their work as dangerously subversive; a local nobleman and self-styled patron of the arts seeks the actors out and commissions them to devise a new play exposing the burgher for the hypocrite he is; in the meantime, a subplot develops involving a poor but educated girl taken on as a maid in the local brothel then quickly `promoted' upstairs. The bawdy, broad-brush comedy of the former generates an exhilarating momentum, regularly punctuated and sharpened by scathing, well aimed comments about the authorities' attitude to dissenting art. Occasionally the didacticism is a little heavy-handed, but that is forgivable given the discipline so largely evident, and the defiantly moving ending wrapped the whole thing up with a tremendously forceful punch.".
- 3?accountid=15842 title "Theatre:The Burgher's Tale Netherbo Theatre, Edinburgh".
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