What the Public Wants
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 27, 2011
Closed Mar 13, 2011
Opened Jan 27, 2011
Closed Mar 13, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
What The Public Wants is Arnold Bennett's sly satire on tabloid journalism -- a lively look at life behind the headlines and proof that the more things change, the more they stay the same. This clever 1909 comedy charts the efforts of media mogul Sir Charles Worgan to boost circulation as well as his social standing. He owns forty different publications and claims to have "revolutionized journalism." He employs over a thousand people and is worth millions -- and yet Worgan wants more -- he wants respect from the "superior people" who look down their noses at him. But is he willing to pay the price?
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Jonathan Bank has given a foster home to Arnold Bennett's 1909 play
What the Public Wants at the Mint Theatre. And as directed superbly by Matthew Arbour and designed by Roger Hanna, what a welcome new resident it is as it goes about skewering a publishing mogul who may put today's audiences in mind of someone like Rupert Murdoch.
That man is Sir Charles Worgan (Rob Breckenridge), who has founded (as well as bought) all manner of newspapers along the way to a knighthood and becoming a millionaire. Unfortunately, he's made his name and his fortune not by giving the public the truth but by giving the public what he has determined it wants. Only the arrival of his brother Francis (Marc[...]