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mollyellengriffithss 's review for:
The Rehearsal
by Eleanor Catton
Catton demonstrates clever portrayal of the fine line between reality and theatrically- with the reader never being able to distinguish whether the events are real or staged.
The book forms that of 2 strands:
1. Firstly the drama set around the sex scandal at and all girls school and a saxophone teacher based near by.
2. Secondly, a young boy Stanley’s journey into an elite drama school and how they put on a devised piece of theatre based around the fore mentioned sex scandal.
The one thing that let this book down for me was the overdramatised and caricature version of drama schools presented. As I attend a drama school myself, this made this section of the book feel unrealistic and over the top making for a large disconnect from the story.
However, the writing was very intelligent and the structure of the book innovative.
The book forms that of 2 strands:
1. Firstly the drama set around the sex scandal at and all girls school and a saxophone teacher based near by.
2. Secondly, a young boy Stanley’s journey into an elite drama school and how they put on a devised piece of theatre based around the fore mentioned sex scandal.
The one thing that let this book down for me was the overdramatised and caricature version of drama schools presented. As I attend a drama school myself, this made this section of the book feel unrealistic and over the top making for a large disconnect from the story.
However, the writing was very intelligent and the structure of the book innovative.