| You are too kind | |
| Posted by: aleck 05:01 pm EST 01/10/18 | |
| In reply to: PARISIAN WOMAN - Stagecraft? - NewtonUK 04:27 pm EST 01/10/18 | |
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| I believe the playwright and the director were relying heavily on the audience's suspension of disbelief -- namely by being in a stunned state of disbelief that they were actually in the same room as Uma Thurman. Obviously, that wasn't enough for everyone . . . But as I have pointed out here previously, there used to be a time when plays of even weaker and more nonsensical (and longer!) content than this play were successfully carried simply by the presence of the star. Nothing else mattered. I can remember, for example, a production that I still think of as one of my best 2 1/2 hours in the theatre watching Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson is a nothing play (later produced on Broadway by those equal magicians Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert) called The Kingfisher. The thing was a thin as gossamer and I was transfixed and transported. I can still remember a particular speech that Richardson did that seemed other worldly. Of course, we didn't get that in The Parisian Woman -- or you would not have noticed that the railing was 26-28" tall instead of "the usual 36". But I'm glad you had your visual tape measure with you to catch these people from tricking you with their art. |
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