Masterclass lampoons the great white whale(s) of American theatre, in the form of the hyper-masculine playwright, scripting their own absurd takes on obsequious, hyper-adulatory profile pieces of the genius at work, & examples of the genius’s own rugged oeuvre. The show is a two-hander that takes collaboration to its limits, as Adrienne Truscott and Feidlim Cannon dig into the naked truths of power, access and responsibility in the arts.
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RELATED EVENTS
RELATED EVENTS
- Fri Mar 28 – Sat Mar 29, 2025
Brokentalkers & Adrienne Truscott: Masterclass
- Skirball Presents
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Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.
- Sara Ahmed. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook (2023).
- Marisa Crawford, editor. The Weird Sister Collection: Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture (2024).
- Joan Fitzpatrick Dean and José Lanters, editors. Beyond Realism: Experimental and Unconventional Irish Drama Since the Revival (2015).
- Young Jean Lee. Straight White Men (2016).
- Fintan Walsh, editor. “That Was Us”: Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance (2013).
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Masterclass Review
In the play’s final moments, the conversation shifts to the question of space: who gets to occupy it and for how long?
Masterclass review: The “Great male artist” put through the shredder
There’s no pretence to realism as Cannon hymns Truscott’s genius.
On Masterclass, and gender & power in the arts world
“A masterclass is so often an exercise in ego massage and hero worship, frequently mediated by a sycophantic ding-dong.”
Masterclass: A magnificent send-up of the anxieties of the age
This magnificent send-up of James Lipton’s Inside the Actors Studio is the latest play to feel like a direct response to #MeToo.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Take a look back at Adrienne Truscott’s last trip to the Skirball stage – with “Wild Bore” in 2019.
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Wild Bore: Zoe Coombs-Mar, Ursula Martinez, Adrienne Truscott, and Karen Finley
Zoe Coombs Marr was the winner of the 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) award for Trigger Warning and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, London’s Soho Theatre and MICF. Ursula Martinez is an established international writer, performer and cult cabaret diva. She produces explosive live performance, for theatre, cabaret, and beyond. Adrienne Truscott is a choreographer, circus acrobat, dancer, […]
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