Jazz Angel - Review
This review was published on ArtsHub.com.au . By Gordana Andjelic-Davila | Monday August 12 2013 Two men stumble into an apartment, seemingly inebriated. One is quite brash and opinionated, the other somewhat whiny and unable to manage his booze-induced condition. A dialogue, evolving between the two men, gives hints as to their identity and the era they live in; they are none other than Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and they are living in the Roaring Twenties, alternatively known as the Jazz Age. Amadeo Astorino’s Jazz Angel is a theatrical vignette focusing on the fascinating yet torrid relationship between Hemingway and Fitzgerald during their expat stint in France. The American literary icons are depicted as self-indulgent and somewhat confused by the direction of their careers. Even before the shoe dropped as to the identity of the two characters on stage, it was apparent that the brawny one was Ernest Hemingway, embodied by Lliam Amor, who w...