How far would you go to save the ones you love? This is the confronting core thematic question that Phillip Ridley’s Mercury Fur forces us to answer. Premiering in 2005 at the Plymouth Theatre Royal in London, Mercury Fur’s highly controversial and disturbing concepts prompted regular audience walk-outs during initial runs of the play, and it received thoroughly mixed reviews in its early days.
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While the creative process is often explored in works of theatre and performance, the elitism of the arts gets a direct dressing down in new play SAMO Is Dead.
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David Ives’ 2010 play drops the audience into an audition room. Writer-director Thomas Novachek struggles to find the leading lady for his one-dimensional, misogynistic adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs - until the mysterious Vanda Jordan literally appears before him like an unholy apparition clad in lingerie.
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