| re: Ben Brantley on FOLLIES as seen live on stage at the National Theatre. |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 06:29 pm EST 11/25/17 |
| In reply to: re: Ben Brantley on FOLLIES as seen live on stage at the National Theatre. - Delvino 08:11 am EST 11/24/17 |
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| I echo your appreciation for Goldman's book structurally, though at times I find it paints the characters in bolder strokes than we need. The one correction I would offer is that the book is actually linear. While the story involves moments of memory and the intrusion of another plane of existence with Loveland (a sequence that I found unnecessary when I watched the show tonight, since those songs tell us things we already know from watching numbers that were already follies solos), the timeline of the script's actions is entirely linear, as well as fairly well-contained. It's almost Greek, in that it runs from sundown to sunup in something that emulates continuous time (even while we know that more hours pass than we spend in the theater). |
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