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re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show

Posted by: AlanScott 11:23 pm EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show - Glitter 10:54 pm EDT 08/15/14

"Also, The Visit traditionally ends with horror creeping over the Mayor's face."

Do you mean that the earlier productions of the musical have ended that way? Or the play? If so, is there anything in the text to indicate that? I don't have a copy here of any of the translations or adaptations, but I don't recall that being in the text. I don't think the later film version ends that way. I do have that here and I could check. Anyway, just wondering.

Thanks for the report.


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re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show

Posted by: enoch10 03:33 pm EDT 08/16/14
In reply to: re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show - AlanScott 11:23 pm EDT 08/15/14

if so, i find it less disturbing than the decision to make her jewish and gypsy.

is anyone familiar enough with the valency to know if this can be justified from that translation? i was willing to wade back through it just to see but i can't find it. i probably got rid of it after the bowles came out.


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re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show

Posted by: BruceinIthaca 01:03 am EDT 08/18/14
In reply to: re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show - enoch10 03:33 pm EDT 08/16/14

I think the point was the townspeople viewed her as Jewish and a gypsy, both of which they would have looked down upon (indeed, this echoes the Holocaust, of course)--I don't the play itself was disparaging her. For all we know, she was poor, came from the wrong part of town, and was full of life--and they added on these identities as categorical markers of the "outsider," the abject they did not want to integrate into their "culture."


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re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show

Posted by: Glitter 11:26 pm EDT 08/15/14
In reply to: re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show - AlanScott 11:23 pm EDT 08/15/14

earlier productions of the musical have ended that way...Mark Jacoby did a particularly unsettling grimace.

Sorry for the confusion!


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re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show

Posted by: AlanScott 12:36 am EDT 08/16/14
In reply to: re: The Visit at WTF: my take on the show - Glitter 11:26 pm EDT 08/15/14

Just wanted to be sure. Thanks for the clarification.


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