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re: MOTHERS AND SONS Tonight (Possible Spoiler)

Posted by:	sergius 10:53 am EDT 03/13/14
In reply to:	re: MOTHERS AND SONS Tonight (Possible Spoiler) - Delvino 09:06 am EDT 03/13/14

Thanks for your response. By "parochial" I meant a kind or degree of narrow-mindedness. To me, in its celebration of recent civil rights advances, including marriage equality, the play ignores important aspects and goals of what used to be called the gay liberation movement, aims that are perhaps unrelated to varieties of assimilation. Of course, it's completely fair for McNally to be disinterested in this question. It's disappointing to me, but it's not what his play is about. This said, my major complaint about the play is that it's implausible and contrived. I think it sacrifices a more challenging and rigorous dramaturgy to facile, trope-like sentiment. But I appreciate your remarks.

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