"I could be wrong, but I think the issue in this discussion is not that some people find no drama in the situation of the plane people PER SE (though it may have seemed like that's what they were stating), but rather that they don't feel the situation is well dramatized in COME FROM AWAY."
This was my contribution: choice of characters, and character's issues mined, and the execution of the resulting stakes excavated.
For what it's worth, I've found this entire discussion to be a very thoughtful and well argued one. I've learned a lot about both this show, and the universal experience that's greater than what happened in Gander. Which "Come From Away" seeks to illuminate. And, once again, been required to examine how musicals work, and why some work for some audience members and not others. |
