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Title: Review: ‘Tuesdays at Tesco’s,’ With Simon Callow, on a Transgender Woman’s Trava
Post by: traci_k on May 20, 2015, 03:38:03 PM
Post by: traci_k on May 20, 2015, 03:38:03 PM
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.
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.