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MOTHERS AND SONS ...

Posted by: flaguy 08:55 am EDT 03/13/14
In reply to: MOTHERS AND SONS Tonight (Possible Spoiler) - sergius 12:01 am EDT 03/13/14

I saw it yesterday afternoon.

And I felt like I was watching a Holocaust play, reminding us to never forget what happened thirty years ago.

And me, as a "Holocaust" survivor, was not pleased to be reminded of something I already can't forget, and all those friends/victims of that plague that I personally lost, who I'll never forget.

And I said to myself "This was written for my sister in Lansing, Michigan, to sit through. Not ME!"

So I left the theatre a little angry. And no, I don't think it's written all that well.

But ... as I made my way down Eighth Avenue to catch my cross town bus, I found I had to turn away from the oncoming crowds of people and pretend to look in those crumby shop windows. Because I was crying. CRYING!

It's not a great play.

It's an important play.


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PS ...

Posted by: flaguy 09:43 am EDT 03/13/14
In reply to: MOTHERS AND SONS ... - flaguy 08:55 am EDT 03/13/14

PS -- Funny/sad. That sophisticated New York preview audience gasped a little when the two men finally kissed late in the play. In 2014.


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Posted by: bwayjoey 10:56 am EDT 03/13/14
In reply to: PS ... - flaguy 09:43 am EDT 03/13/14

I still remember the gasps at the kiss in "Kiss of the Spider Woman" in 1993! You'd think people would be over it by now.


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re: PS ...

Posted by: John_Patti 02:48 pm EDT 03/13/14
In reply to: re: PS ... - bwayjoey 10:56 am EDT 03/13/14

The gasp was for the mother who was coming out of the bathroom. The audience was actually being sympathtic and anticipating her response.


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Exactly the reaction was concern the mother would be nasty

Posted by: UWS_JIM 04:57 pm EDT 03/13/14
In reply to: re: PS ... - John_Patti 02:48 pm EDT 03/13/14

Rather than shock at them kissing.

SPOILERS

As a 46 year old gay man it was the comments about the loss of people from AIDS that moved me, especially the thought of how some people were infected only slightly too early to be saved.


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