| Was there really much of an opinion that SIX DEGREES was "offensive" back in 1990? | |
| Posted by: portenopete 02:49 am EDT 10/10/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Danner from "Six Degrees..." - lordofspeech 02:06 am EDT 10/10/17 | |
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| I can see "too slight", maybe, although in Channing and Vance's hands, it hardly seemed slight. It was one of the most moving evenings of theatre I have ever had. The Old Vic revival with Lesley Manville was not as thrilling and I wondered if the play hadn't aged well. And the recent revival (which I did not see) didn't sound like it scored with a lot of people. To say that the play does not represent Paul's point of view as fully as it does Ouisa's strikes me as glaringly obvious: Guare's play is not Paul's story, it's Ouisa's. He writes Paul (and the other characters) with great empathy but the main focus is on Ouisa Kittredge and how her encounter with a young, black man changed her life. |
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