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Play Linus Karp and Joseph Martin
Karp and Martin perform the show at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Gwyneth Goes Skiing is a comic play by Linus Karp and Joseph Martin with music by Leland. The story centers on the 2023 US court case between actress Gwyneth Paltrow and optometrist Terry Sanderson over a ski collision at Deer Valley ski resort in Utah.

The play premiered off West End in London's Pleasance Theatre in December 2023, before a second run at the same theatre in February 2024, followed by a 2024 UK tour. It is set to be revived in January 2025 at the Egyptian Theatre, Park City, in Utah, the state where the ski collision and the court case occurred. In all of the productions of the show to date, Gwyneth and Terry have been played by the writers, Linus Karp and Joseph Martin. The singing voices of Gwyneth and Terry are provided by Catherine Cohen and Darren Criss, respectively. Trixie Mattel also appears in a video cameo as Paltrow's mother, Blythe Danner.

Reviewing the play, Brian Logan, writing in The Guardian, rated the "camp" comedy three out of five stars: "The show is packed with jokes, if often the obvious ones ... and cheerfully unabashed by its basement-level production values. It co-opts the crowd to play supporting roles shares with its audience a gossipy delight in the trial’s more outre episodes. ... I’m not sure those limited pleasures sustain for the two-hour duration."

References

  1. ^ "Gwyneth Goes Skiing". Egyptian Theatre Historic Park City. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  2. ^ Higgins, Molly. "Gwyneth Goes Skiing to Embark on U.K. and Ireland Tour", Playbill, June 10, 2024
  3. Moses, Claire (2023-11-15). "Gwyneth Paltrow's Ski Trial Is Getting the Musical Treatment". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
  4. ^ Logan, Brian (2024-02-04). "Gwyneth Goes Skiing review – camp cartoonish courtroom drama revels in all the razzmatazz and idiocy". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
  5. Curtis, Nick (2024-02-05). "Gwyneth Goes Skiing at The Pleasance: arch, sarky and wilfully OTT". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
  6. Hall, Margaret. "New Musical Gwyneth Goes Skiing to Play London", Playbill, November 15, 2023
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