| re: The Band's Visit, A Study in Boredom |
| Posted by: singleticket 12:34 pm EST 01/05/18 |
| In reply to: The Band's Visit, A Study in Boredom - Singapore/Fling 12:20 am EST 01/05/18 |
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Brantley, of course, found it magnificent. It's just the sort of empty vessel of faux-smartness that makes him feel fulfilled.
Thus far it's the season's "snob hit" but better that than the truly muddled fancy-pants FARINELLI AND THE KING.
I didn't find anything faux about the craft and talent that went into THE BAND'S VISIT. I felt there wasn't a wrong move artistically from start to end and I found it exquisite and beautiful and, yes, also boring. A show that airbrushes conflict out of the Arab-Israeli conflict is not going to have conflict. The show's beautiful and bogus idea is that conflict can be transfigured through music and the universal yearning it stirs in us. That's not faux-smart, that's a very smart piece of cultural propaganda. |
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It might be boring but when Adam Cantor starts singing "Answer Me" I am floored. - barna99 06:25 pm EST 01/05/18 |
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