| FULFILLMENT CENTER Last Night | |
| Posted by: sergius 03:03 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| Another miniature play. It's 80 minutes long, sharply observed, and gorgeously acted. But it's small. Just as you're settling in with the characters, they're gone. There are a number of playwrights today who have a great talent for naturalism and for detailed, uncanny even, characterization. They have the formidable precision of the best short story writers, capturing, perhaps as no generation before them, the tenor and the rhythms of today's idiosyncratic speech especially as it reflects the routine uncertainty and anxiety of contemporary life. The theatre needs all kinds of stories, of course, but it seems to me that there are presently too few expansive--novelistic so to speak--plays being written and/or produced. Do our increasingly short attention spans incline us to be rapt by small mindedness? Don't the times and circumstances call for a larger and more urgent view of this perilous moment when the promises of futurity are being assailed at every turn? Or are we so overwhelmed by the long view that we can only see what's in front of us? I liked Abe Koogler's KILL FLOOR, and FULFILLMENT CENTER (terrific title) is an even better depiction of the different ways people can get lost. But I wish he and many of his gifted contemporaries would widen their lenses a bit. What's in front of us is not just in front of us. | |
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