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Tristan & Yseult at Berk Rep--can the ending save a show?

Posted by: dramedy 01:01 pm EST 01/09/14

I saw T&Y yesterday. I wasn't crazy about the Wild Bride, but this show got such good notices (and i liked the Pianist a lot), i got a ticket for T&Y. The first act was ok--slightly avant- garde, but kept my attention. The second act rather dragged and there was one, then another false ending. And then the last 10 minutes happened where everything fell into place and was not what i expected at all--it was rather moving ending. So if you go, stay after intermission.

And Tristan is HOT. I stared at him a lot in the second act during the dull scenes.


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CAN the ending save a show?

Posted by: Pir8Jenny 06:04 pm EST 01/10/14
In reply to: Tristan & Yseult at Berk Rep--can the ending save a show? - dramedy 01:01 pm EST 01/09/14

I've been pondering the question for over a week now. I just returned from vacation in London where I saw (among other things) the new musical of "American Psycho." And while there was SO MUCH about it that I would change, the ending was really effective.

(It probably helped that I had neither read the book nor seen the film, so I was particularly struck by the ending. But I can safely say that if you HAVE read the book or seen the film, they actually successfully pull off the ending, which is pretty damn difficult.)

But, I mean, it worked. It worked so well, it made me go back and reconsider some of the earlier stuff I hadn't liked (not all of it, surely, but the ending made me have second thoughts about some of it).

In this case, I'd have to say, yes, the ending saved the show. But it has to be a damn good ending.


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re: Tristan & Yseult at Berk Rep--can the ending save a show?

Posted by: Richard Connema 01:42 pm EST 01/09/14
In reply to: Tristan & Yseult at Berk Rep--can the ending save a show? - dramedy 01:01 pm EST 01/09/14

Oh I agree Tristan is HOT.


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