Saturday, August 22, 2009

Reviews from Elsewhere: Dixie's Tupperware Party, Edinburgh Fringe and other venues



A Guardian newspaper review by Jackie Hunter, August 19, passed along by @artfulmanager via Twitter:

Dixie's land of Tupperware bowls over Edinburgh

An outrageous show with an acid-tongued drag queen flogging colanders is a hoot on the fringe. But there's more to this party than meets the eye

Jackie Hunter, guardian.co.uk, Monday 17 August 2009


At the only other Tupperware party I've ever attended – reluctantly, with my mum, in 1983 – I'm pretty sure the demonstrator didn't address the assembled guests as "hookers". Nor did she dwell on unfortunate episodes of drunken sex behind restaurant dustbins, or make gags about "rimming" (the practice of working round the lid of a plastic bowl with both thumbs to seal it properly, at least in this context). How things have changed in the world of kitchenware.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

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