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re: If it's "based on" the play, then it is an adaptation (and it doesn't pretend otherwise)

Posted by:	garyd 11:54 pm EDT 08/16/14
In reply to:	re: If it's "based on" the play, then it is an adaptation (and it doesn't pretend otherwis ... - enoch10 11:07 pm EDT 08/16/14

Thanks. I know I have it in an anthology from Univ. of Chicago press but I am not sure I have read it and won't for a while since it is located in a bookcase a bit distant from my current location. My wife and I have seen the current production and, I think, it stays close to the themes of the play. That being said, it does contain an element of romance between Clair and Ill(the scene in the woods which also is in the play) which I interpret simply as an attempt to humanize both of them, a sense of regret, a sense of nostalgia, but definitely not an attempt by the current creative team to shift the focus to that of an epic love story. It remains an attempt to ironically meld musical theatre with the dark comedy of the original play. (Perhaps not successfully but a bold attempt.) I just read the Brantley review and his thoughts parallel mine.

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