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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Brian Logan

Masterclass review – the ‘great male artist’ put through the shredder

Adrienne Truscott and Feidlim Cannon in Masterclass.
Wigging out … Adrienne Truscott and Feidlim Cannon in Masterclass. Photograph: Ste Murray

The great male artist may soon be on his way out, and not before time. But Brokentalkers theatre company and the feminist comic Adrienne Truscott are taking no chances. Masterclass opens the door for the David Mamets and Ernest Hemingways of yore, with their machismo, their “underdeveloped female characters” and their “casual cruelty” – and ushers them on their way. And as for the rest of us? We tender-hearted non-toxic feminist allies, tippy-toeing around our modern maleness? Oh dear. It sounds like we’ve got to sling our hook too.

Feidlim Cannon and Adrienne Truscott in Masterclass.
No pretence to realism … Feidlim Cannon and Adrienne Truscott in Masterclass. Photograph: Ste Murray
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