Comedy, Tragedy, Surgery & and Rivers Isn't Going Quietly ; Review Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress Leicester Square Theatre .***

Evening Standard - London › September 05, 2008

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WHETHER swearing on daytime television or revealing her latest nip and tuck, Joan Rivers is regularly the centre of attention. And in her latest appearance the 75-year-old icon is most definitely in the limelight, grabbing all the best lines. But then she did cowrite this bizarre yet compelling hybrid of autobiography, play and stand- up.

Anyone hoping for conventional theatre last night soon had their expectations trampled. Rivers immediately addressed the audience directly and throughout proceedings slipped into filthy stand-up mode, sticking the Manolo Blahniks into the likes of Russell Crowe, Sophia Loren and Victoria "does this tampon make me look fat?" Beckham. Some gags were nearly as old as Rivers, yet she spat them out with such venom they still merited a laugh..

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Comedy, Tragedy, Surgery & and Rivers Isn't Going Quietly ; Review Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress Leicester Square Theatre .***

The setting is the dressing room on Oscars night. Rivers is preparing for her ...

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