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The Tulip Wars
Published Friday 5 March 2010 at 16:30 by Jonathan Lovett
It is like the kind of bizarre experiments hybridisers performed in attempts to create the ultimate fantasy flower - the black tulip.
A twist on Mark R Giesser’s play How to Build a Better Tulip, itself an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel The Black Tulip, this is a curious crossbreed of horticultural farce and genetic psycho absurdism that veers wildly from bonkers to brilliant to baloney and back again.
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The Tulip Wars
By Mark R. Giesser
Giant Olive Theatre Company
Lion and Unicorn Theatre
Review by Howard Loxton (2010)
In the seventeenth century there was a craze for tulips that saw them fetching fantastic prices and led to a speculator's boom. Alexandre Dumas père based a novel on it in which horticulturalists compete in an effort to produce a black tulip and win a prize of 100,000 guilders. There have been films and television series based on it and it is one of the sources for this play with which American Mark Giesser makes his British debut as a dramatist.
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Review of The Tulip Wars 
"Could do with a prune"
by David Phipps-Davis for remotegoat on 07/03/10 |
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Theatre review: The Tulip Wars at Lion and Unicorn Theatre
Published: 11 March 2010
by JOSH LOEB
BUDDING writers (no pun intended) are generally encouraged to steer clear of subjects about which they are ignorant.
But that well-worn piece of advice, “Write what you know”, is in fact unnecessary as it would be impossible to do otherwise.
As evidence, look at the inordinate number of plays set at dinner parties and the absence of plays set in labs. Even before getting down to the nitty-gritty therefore, The Tulip Wars deserves respect for tackling a subject chronically underappreciated in the world of the theatre: plant biology. |
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