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Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 04:28 pm EDT 08/08/14
In reply to: Brantley reviews "The Visit." - kieran 11:30 pm EDT 08/07/14
"Nor could you ask for a more creepily beguiling-looking production than this one, which features a sooty, spectral set by Scott Pask that suggests a long-abandoned train station where you can buy a ticket straight to hell."

I love that line!

"In its previous incarnations, 'The Visit' never knocked anyone’s socks off. 'Honorable but conflicted' was how my colleague Charles Isherwood assessed it when he saw the show at the Signature Theater in Virginia."

Well...the fact that it didn't knock Isherwood's socks off doesn't mean it "never knocked anyone's" socks off. That's pretty much what the Signature production did to me.

"But it has to be said that 'The Visit' still suffers from the fatally divided soul of a work that wants both to warm the heart and chill the blood."

I guess I can understand why some people might view this as a huge flaw, but in my opinion, it's one of the show's greatest assets, and what makes it pretty much unique. I think it's true that our hearts are meant to be warmed by the recollections of the love that the two main characters once had, but the overall feeling you're left with at the end of the show is definitely blood chilling, because of, ummm, what happens.

"She loves this guy so much she wants him dead, so she can have him all to herself!...Mr. Kander’s pastel tunefulness doesn’t give such passion its sinister due."

I strongly disagree.


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