The Place,London[br]Anderson’s topsy-turvy show approximately vaudeville has-beens sails close to bathos but is beguiling, poignant and funnyLea Anderson disbanded her companies – the all-female Cholmondeleys and all-male Featherstonehaughs – after her funding was axed in 2011, and it’s tough not to hear a pang of longing for them in the title of her fresh cabaret-style work,Ladies and Gentlemen.
But the piece is no exercise in nostalgia; rather, Anderson takes ideas of regret and failure and transforms them into a delightfully surreal theatrical gem.
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Source: theguardian.com