| re: "Once on This Island" is a gorgeous production but, um, can we talk about the story? (spoilers) | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 08:41 pm EST 11/22/17 | |
| In reply to: re: "Once on This Island" is a gorgeous production but, um, can we talk about the story? (spoilers) - Delvino 08:34 pm EST 11/22/17 | |
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| BUT - this also speaks to a larger point that I think many of us are guilty of, especially on sites such as this. We do often overanalyze, in part because we do enjoy trying to figure out what causes the art that we see and hear. But I do think that it's often counterproductive - indeed, a show such as Once On This Island just doesn't successfully stand up to such academic rigor. Not that that makes it a lesser show by any means - just that it was clearly never intended to accommodate such heavy-handed meaning. It's just a wonderful and moving show. And I also daresay that many of the stories we see either portrayed onstage or in other mediums, or folktales/fairytales/mtyhs handed down to us - many of them have inexplicable holes or plot points or characters that have motives we don't agree with, or seem foreign to our contemporary mores, etc. That's an essential ingredient of human storytelling. I don't think that Once On This Island is any special case, really. |
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