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re: "The Laziness of Bernard Shaw"

Posted by:	garyd 01:09 pm EDT 05/06/15
In reply to:	re: "The Laziness of Bernard Shaw" - singleticket 06:23 am EDT 05/06/15

Don't get me wrong, I am delighted you found Hamilton as I think he has some very interesting things to say about the theatre at the turn of the last century and that much is applicable today. I have always disagreed with him about "Misalliance". The characters in Misalliance may fail to transform their society, to change the nature of their literal and figurative "house," or to successfully renegotiate the parent/child relationship. "But the more the young people in the play learn to express and to act upon their vitality--and the more the actors discover their own vitality in their roles--the more their world and ours will never be the same." (Mazer) That being said,the play IS a conversation and the structure, or lack thereof according to Hamilton, does not sit well with some critics. In some ways the play reminds me of "Disgraced".

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