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CARDINAL Today
Last Edit: sergius 05:30 pm EST 01/21/18
Posted by: sergius 05:30 pm EST 01/21/18

Listless and inert. There might be a play in here somewhere, but it's buried beneath a lot of pedantic posturing. It's arguable whether plays should have a point, I suppose, but it's generally a good idea for them to have characters. CARDINAL has neither. It's so mundane, it's trying. A self absorbed, endlessly grating and false young woman wants to reinvent the economically challenged small town she grew up in. There's a depressed young mayor, father and son Chinese-American real estate developers, a kindly working class woman who owns a bakery in town and her adult autistic son. None of these characters is remotely believable and the circumstance they find themselves in is equally implausible. The play is baffling and dull in the extreme.
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re: CARDINAL Today
Posted by: FinalPerformance 09:22 am EST 01/22/18
In reply to: CARDINAL Today - sergius 05:30 pm EST 01/21/18

I'm sorry to say I agree with you. It is a very slight play with a nice cast.
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re: CARDINAL Today
Posted by: twocents 10:25 am EST 01/23/18
In reply to: re: CARDINAL Today - FinalPerformance 09:22 am EST 01/22/18

Loosen up, Final. They gotta save that pathetic town no matter what! There's drama and conflict. Great fun spending time with a talented cast. The between scene music was pretty cool.
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CARDINAL Today...Disco Pig tomorrow
Posted by: FinalPerformance 08:18 pm EST 01/23/18
In reply to: re: CARDINAL Today - twocents 10:25 am EST 01/23/18

I'll loosen up at Disco Pig. Going Wednesday at 3. and in the mood for something different.
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re: CARDINAL Today
Posted by: davei2000 11:26 am EST 01/22/18
In reply to: re: CARDINAL Today - FinalPerformance 09:22 am EST 01/22/18

"Slight" is not the same as "baffling" and "dull." I agree with the former, yet I rather enjoyed it. It doesn't explore any issues well, and it indulges in melodrama to reach a conclusion, but I was a bit surprised by where it went before then.
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re: CARDINAL Today
Posted by: twocents 10:28 am EST 01/23/18
In reply to: re: CARDINAL Today - davei2000 11:26 am EST 01/22/18

I've gotten so used to melodrama that it barely registers anymore, unless a play is truly unredeeming.
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