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Last of the Red-Hot Dadas

by Kerry Reid

Audience review on the edinburgh-festivals.com website
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5 stars

Doug 13 Aug 2003
reviewer: Doug Edinburgh

Inspirational dada broomstick ride

Radiant in her spectacular junkyard finery, Christina Augello as Elsa talks us through the wild life and loves that so fascinated and terrified the avante-garde of 1920's New York. Man Ray, William Carlos Williams and Duchamp and others are remembered or reviled, sometimes with the aid of bizarre found-object puppets. Hilarious, scabrous, poetic and wise. Yet there is a tragic emotional honesty behind it all - the story of a true original and a life lived passionately and for keeps. All this and a big black-lipsticky kiss from the Queen of New York Dada - could there ever be a more perfect fringe moment?

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