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"The Jumper" Trillium Literary Journal, Fall 2007, 80-83 "Debauchery Next Door: The Boundaries of Shame in Abigail's Party" Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 24.4. July 2007, 317-323. The play that became Abigail's Party began life as an experiment devised by director Mike Leigh with five actors – including his then-wife, Alison Steadman – at the Hampstead Theater in London. Given basicharacter outlines and six weeks for rehearsal, these five actors partly improvised the original production that was later used as the basis of Mike Leigh's script for the BBC's Play for Today, first screened on November 5, 1977. Although incidental details of time and place initially seem vital elements of Abigail's Party , by most accounts the play has dated well, and there have been regular revivals, including a highly-acclaimed recent performance at the play's original venue, the Hampstead Theater. ...read more… I Was a Brain Slave!
originally
published in Guinea Pig Zero,
September 2006.
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