[NEohioPAL] Review of "The Woman Hater" at Mamai Theatre Company

[Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL]

Mamaí resurrects, re-animates lost lampoon ‘The Woman-Hater’



Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics

  

Not long ago, the remains of Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre – built in 1577 and the site where “Henry V” and “Romeo and Juliet” were first performed – were discovered beneath a graveled yard in congested east London.



Just a bunch of bricks and decaying wood foundation walls to passersby, experts from the Museum of London Archaeology asserted that the remains “clear away the miserable piles of Victoriana and Empire, revealing the wild, anarchic and joyous London lurking beneath.”



Like-minded though less expressive enthusiasm surrounded the re-discovery of the play “The Woman Hater,” a long-forgotten and never-performed satire written between 1796 and 1801 by Frances Burney, an influential novelist but comparatively inconsequential and infrequent playwright.  



The play resurfaced in 1945 when the New York Public Library acquired a collection of Burney’s novels, letters and plays.  The work was published for the first time in 1995, received its first production in Montreal in 2003, and is currently on stage at Mamaí. 



For more of this review, go to www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/. 
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