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Title: Don't Bother
Review: This is an awful play. The dialogue is written in modern speech, although the setting remains in the early seventeenth century. The feminist treatment is heavy-handed, the humour isn't funny, and the pathos becomes bathos. As a piece for the theatre, it also suffers, with numerous overly-short scenes. I don't think this would translate well to the stage. Hell, it doesn't even scan well as a written piece.I am disappointed. The story of Elisabet Bathory is an interesting one, but becomes puerile and simplistic in this play.
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