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| re: Anyone else in my camp re OFFICE HOURS and MARY JANE | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 11:09 am EDT 10/24/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Anyone else in my camp re OFFICE HOURS and MARY JANE - Delvino 11:00 am EDT 10/24/17 | |
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| This play MARY JANE sounds so interesting. I may try to catch it before it closes Sunday. But I must say I'm wary, and in that I guess I've become like a conservative theatre-goer. I would like to know that I'll be uplifted or relieved or have some sort of positive shift at the play's end and not be left in grief or despair about disabilities. Can anyone help me out with this? (And it's not a question I'd have asked when I was 17. I loved the movie "Other People" in which Molly Shannon played the mother dying of cancer, so I'm not a wuss about human suffering. But I don't know that I'd want to sit through "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" again, for instance.) | |
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| re: Anyone else in my camp re OFFICE HOURS and MARY JANE | |
| Posted by: summertheater 03:32 pm EDT 10/24/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Anyone else in my camp re OFFICE HOURS and MARY JANE - lordofspeech 11:09 am EDT 10/24/17 | |
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| Mild spoiler - Mary Jane picks up towards the middle when the hospital emergency happens, but before that it's mostly boring small-talk, all of which could be cut to save 40+ minutes from the rather lengthy running time. It's as if the writer just kept writing and writing to fill up 100 minutes. An 80 minute version would have been much stronger. | |
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| re: Anyone else in my camp re OFFICE HOURS and MARY JANE | |
| Posted by: Ann 03:40 pm EDT 10/24/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Anyone else in my camp re OFFICE HOURS and MARY JANE - summertheater 03:32 pm EDT 10/24/17 | |
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| It's depicting a situation realistically. You can't always convey something in a quick 80 minutes. The audience should feel something of what she's feeling, and her life is not very exciting and is without relief. I'm not saying you have to be bored to understand, but I think the audience gets a sense, and feels it, of what such a life is like. I found nothing about it boring, and making it shorter (just to make it shorter) would be cheating the characters. | |
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| re: Anyone else in my camp re OFFICE HOURS and MARY JANE | |
| Posted by: Delvino 07:46 am EDT 10/25/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Anyone else in my camp re OFFICE HOURS and MARY JANE - Ann 03:40 pm EDT 10/24/17 | |
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| Agree entirely. | |
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