Review: ‘Tuesdays at Tesco’s,’ With Simon Callow, on a Transgender Woman’s Trava

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Review: 'Tuesdays at Tesco's,' With Simon Callow, on a Transgender Woman's Travail

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/theater/review-tuesdays-at-tescos-with-simon-callow-on-a-transgender-womans-travail.html?_r=0

The New York Times

By BEN BRANTLEYMAY 19, 2015

Pauline knows that you're looking at her. People always do. Her response is to look right back — hard — until you drop or soften your gaze. You better. Pauline is determined to make you feel more embarrassed by the fact of her existence than she is.

In a bold and expert performance that makes no concessions to an actor's vanity or an audience's sympathy, the august British actor Simon Callow portrays — no, fully inhabits — Pauline in Emmanuel Darley's "Tuesdays at Tesco's." This bleak portrait of a woman defending her identity, which opened on Tuesday night at 59E59 as part of the Brits Off Broadway festival, is letting no one off easy.



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The play sounds quite fascinating. Wish I lived in NY.