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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Fisher

The Grand Old Opera House Hotel review – head-spinning operatic comedy

Hits the high notes … The Grand Old Opera House Hotel at the Traverse theatre.
Hits the high notes … The Grand Old Opera House Hotel at the Traverse theatre. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/the Guardian

Early in Isobel McArthur’s head-spinning new comedy, there is a gag about the uniformity of hotel decor. The joke is plain to see. Ana Inés Jabares-Pita’s inspired three-level set, as wide as it is tall, has a colour palette that extends all the way from fawn to beige. To move from one bedroom to another they simply have to change the number on the wall. Everything is identical.

“Designs like this, which court the aesthetically unspecific, risk offending no one,” pipes up one of the room attendants.

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