| I haven't seen the production, but read the revised script (just published), and started a thread on the differences. The backstory of Song aside (which several people appreciate, me included), the new edition is both too much and too little, in my opinion. The how-to of the sexual deception, masterfully articulated in the original, has been explicated in graphic detail. I have no idea how it plays in performance, but on the page, it reads like a footnote, an annotation of the original, which managed to be both clear (enough) and mysterious. I mostly just found the new script to be change-outs without improvements. The original was more long-winded, operatic perhaps. But I'm not sure that the tightening served the emotional impact. If you have more comments on how the script plays, I'd welcome them. I won't get to see this. |
