Zelda
From: Tuesday, 18th September 2012
To: Thursday, 4 October 2012
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Synopsis
Zelda Sayre is the belle of Alabama, the outlandish good-time girl who captures the heart of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Their life together is one great party, from the madness of Jazz Age New York to the gin-soaked glamour of the Riviera. Then Zelda takes up writing herself - and more than her marriage begins to crack up.
Our Review:
20 September 2012
"They tell you you're a schitzo and they give you certain privileges." Zelda Fitzgerald is brought to life in this beautifully crafted, exceptionally well acted monologue based on her writings before and after her marriage to "the most talented man in America" F Scott Fitzgerald.
First seen in Edinburgh, but deserving a life far beyond, Kelly Burke brilliantly brings her talents as both writer and actress to the service of the fascinating, humorous, affecting life story of someone who lived in the shadow of a literary icon and, in so-doing, destroyed herself.
The struggle of a less successful writer in love with an genius proves to be as toxic a combination for Zelda and Scott as it would be 40 years later for Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell. In one of the strongest moments, Zelda reads her partner’s new book Tender is the Night and sees her own words on the page. Rage, hurt and illness gradually lead to her incarceration and the crumbling of her relati...
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Cahoots (Company)
Robert F. Gross (Director)
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