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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

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

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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