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re: Anyone else in my camp re OFFICE HOURS and MARY JANE
Posted by: StageManager 01:44 pm EDT 10/24/17
In reply to: Anyone else in my camp re OFFICE HOURS and MARY JANE - NewtonUK 10:45 am EDT 10/24/17

Only to say if you think the mother in "Mary Jane" is in denial of her child's plight, then you didn't see the same play I did.

What is chilling I think is to see a mother who totally gets what's going on, and has chosen to look it right in the face and deal with it.

And deal with it by cool, professional strong clear doing and caring.

There's another play somewhere where the mother rants and raves and punches the furniture. This isn't that play.

We found it moving and quite beautiful.

Your mileage may vary
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re: Anyone else in my camp re OFFICE HOURS and MARY JANE
Last Edit: Ann 02:26 pm EDT 10/24/17
Posted by: Ann 02:25 pm EDT 10/24/17
In reply to: re: Anyone else in my camp re OFFICE HOURS and MARY JANE - StageManager 01:44 pm EDT 10/24/17

I also thought and said at the time that she was in a kind of denial. But it was the kind where she put aside thoughts of / attention to the inevitable, because that was the only way she could get through the interim. After the conclusion, I thought, she can now let that go.

... a mother who totally gets what's going on, and has chosen to look it right in the face and deal with it.

I do not feel she was looking at his death right in the face and dealing with it. She had enough to do with dealing with the present, and being his advocate.

I also thought it was moving and quite beautiful - a superb production.
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