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Monday, December 20, 2010

Could things get any worse (for the actors) in Slings & Arrows?

True to form, the 5th (of 6) episode in Season 3 of "Slings & Arrows" ends as other episode 5's did, with the entire cast and the entire New Burbage Festival at its nadir - everything going wrong and the problems seemingly insolvable on the eve of opening night: King Lear has been moved to the small theater, with the musical now on the main stage and the tensions between the two casts at the highest pitch; Charles, the old man playing Lear, has once again had a medical breakdown and literally attacked Ellen/Martha Burns on the stage, causing her to resign; Sophie/Cordelia/Sarah Polley as glum as she can get, at last tells her co-actor that she's been in love with him and he's broken her heart as he's pursued the star of the musical; the Lear understudy injured in a bar fight and on his way to the hospital. All this plus Jeffrey still in the throes of Oliver's ghost and the diva Barbara making life miserable for all. A lot to wrap up in episode 6! We all are sure that Charles will pull through with at least one great performance of Lear - his dying wish. Of course Sophie and the guy (he plays Edgar I think) will get together at last. I'm guessing that Ellen will make good on the contract she's signed for a TV series and leave New Burbage. Oliver will finally disappear - perhaps going off stage with Charles's ghost, as Charles dies? A shame this series has to end - but perhaps three seasons was all that the writers could draw from this materials, and it's better to go off too soon than too late.

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