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Has Depressing and Violent left the Contemporary Playwright?

Posted by:	stan 08:58 am EDT 03/16/14
In reply to:	THE OPEN HOUSE (Possible Spoiler) - sergius 12:24 am EDT 03/16/14

I really enjoyed "Open House." It was funny and thoughtful. Last month "Stage Kiss" and now this. I was laughing out loud and the audiences were smiling when they left the theater. (not so in "Red Vienna"). Maybe the good times are rolling in? or maybe it's like the Kaufmann and Marx Bros. shows of the depression geared to make you forget the Crimean crisis and the missing Malaysian Jet and the new Mayor. Anyway, it's nice to have a chuckle.

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re: Has Depressing and Violent left the Contemporary Playwright?

Posted by:	Michael_Portantiere 02:15 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to:	Has Depressing and Violent left the Contemporary Playwright? - stan 08:58 am EDT 03/16/14

I have to ask: Are you joking about THE OPEN HOUSE being a "good time" play? As hilarious as much of it is, there are extremely dark, unsettling underpinning to the characters and the story. Did you not get any of that?

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