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Takes as its raw material the sterotypical narratives found inthe popular romance genre of Mills and Boon. The play offers four such narratives, set in exotic Patagonis and a poor girl's dream of happiness, the Wild West town of Rattlesnake, at the front in World War Two and among the doctors and nurses of the Royal Princess Danielle Military Hospital. … The rot at the centre is seen to be the genre's inevitable presentation of sexual stereotypes, and to this end the playwright has her actors take roles regardless of gender… The parody of cliche, one-dimensional character and speech-bubble dialogue is in the end no differnt from the real thing. |
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