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| Albee's MALCOLM - did anyone see it? | |
| Posted by: singleticket 11:07 am EST 01/06/18 | |
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| I just finished the Purdy novel which I enjoyed and I'm curious about the Albee play. | |
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| re: Albee's MALCOLM - did anyone see it? | |
| Posted by: dbg 01:06 am EST 01/07/18 | |
| In reply to: Albee's MALCOLM - did anyone see it? - singleticket 11:07 am EST 01/06/18 | |
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| I did see it but don't remember anything about it, except that Matthew Cowles, who later had a soap opera career in All My Children, was Malcolm. Years later, Edward Albee came to the university where I taught and attended a performance of two of his one-act plays and gave a lecture. I brought my Malcolm Playbill and asked if he would sign it. He didn't seem pleased that of all his plays that was the one whose Playbill I chose to have signed. The play only ran a week. I wonder if it has ever been performed beyond the original Broadway production. | |
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| re: Albee's MALCOLM/ Matthew Cowles | |
| Posted by: Gustave 10:08 am EST 01/07/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Albee's MALCOLM - did anyone see it? - dbg 01:06 am EST 01/07/18 | |
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| Matthew Cowles was married to Christine Baranski for more than thirty years, until his death in 2014. Two Daughters. Gustave | |
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| re: Albee's MALCOLM - did anyone see it? | |
| Posted by: RLand 02:26 pm EST 01/06/18 | |
| In reply to: Albee's MALCOLM - did anyone see it? - singleticket 11:07 am EST 01/06/18 | |
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| I saw what I think was the first preview---was it December of 65? I think so. It was episodic, a large number of scenes---but very few of them came alive. I think thematically it connected with the theme of the boy looking for his parents, which appears in several Albee plays. I left feeling uninspired, and figured that it would not be very successful. |
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| re: Albee's MALCOLM - did anyone see it? | |
| Posted by: singleticket 07:32 pm EST 01/06/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Albee's MALCOLM - did anyone see it? - RLand 02:26 pm EST 01/06/18 | |
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| Thanks for the post, RLand. I think it must have been a difficult novel to dramatize as it's theatrical without being dramatic, the protagonist is almost completely passive. But the characters have depth even though they're maneuvred about by Purdy in a deceptively two dimensional way. | |
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