“Master Class”

In a major departure from the English-themed theatre we’ve been attending the last few months, last night we saw “Master Class”, the biographical play about Greek opera singer Maria C. TV actress Tyne D does an outstanding impersonation of the “canary” as the starlet’s wealthy Greek husband Ari calls her. My favourite scene in the show is when Tyne D performs a one-woman re-enactment of a conversation between Ari and Maria: Ari courts Maria with his money – they share no pretensions that theirs is a union based on love or mutual admiration. Maria yearns for the freedom that comes with great wealth and Ari for the “class” Maria brings to his name. Their relationship is only one facet of Maria’s dramatic personal life, in that way not unlike the characters she performed on stage.

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