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| re: THE FERRYMAN: What am I missing? | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 03:23 pm EST 01/06/19 | |
| In reply to: THE FERRYMAN: What am I missing? - Teacher64 08:11 am EST 01/06/19 | |
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| Maybe nothing. Maybe you’re missing nothing. Or maybe you’re missing what I missed. SPOILERS BELOW SPOLERS BELOW SPOILERS BELOW It seems one big plot point is that the brunette girl is sleeping adulterously with the good-looking lead guy who has all the children, and his sickly wife who has borne him a lot of children sort of knows but not really. And that’s one plot point. And the major plot point is that the brunette girl was married to the good looking guy’s brother who disappeared all these years ago, and his corpse has only just turned up at the beginning of the play, and I couldn’t follow if he was an irish rebel-hero or a turncoat and/or whether his good-looking brother and the brunettte girl had been having it off before he disappeared and whether that had anything to do with his death or not. And the play kinda condemns the irish rebels, kinda, but the non-senile old lady has a bery strong speech which makes you feel for the rebellion. And the daft british guy is an interesting plotpoint connected to not much. And the young, exciting blond cousin/dancer has a plot that makes sense. I just missed the central string of it all. |
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| re: THE FERRYMAN: What am I missing? | |
| Posted by: Broadwaywannabe 08:10 am EST 01/07/19 | |
| In reply to: re: THE FERRYMAN: What am I missing? - lordofspeech 03:23 pm EST 01/06/19 | |
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| When I saw The Ferryman in London (I haven’t seen it here), the program included a number of really interesting background essays/timelines, including the history of the Troubles an essay about the difficulties of moving on when a person goes missing and is not confirmed as being dead (among other things). Does the playbill for the New York production including any of this? | |
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| re: THE FERRYMAN: What am I missing? (major spoilers) | |
| Posted by: mikem 05:30 pm EST 01/06/19 | |
| In reply to: re: THE FERRYMAN: What am I missing? - lordofspeech 03:23 pm EST 01/06/19 | |
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| (big spoilers) Are the two of them actually having an affair? I got the sense that there was mutual mostly-unspoken attraction, but not a full-blown affair. One thing I didn't love about the play is that, after the curtain falls, a lot of innocent bystanders in the family are probably going to pay a heavy price for the lead's actions. It's a little bit like what probably happened to the nuns who sabotaged the car at the end of The Sound of Music. Maybe that's part of the playwright's point, but it's not as well-developed as it could be. |
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| re: THE FERRYMAN: What am I missing? (major spoilers) | |
| Posted by: Ncassidine 06:08 pm EST 01/06/19 | |
| In reply to: re: THE FERRYMAN: What am I missing? (major spoilers) - mikem 05:30 pm EST 01/06/19 | |
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| No, they aren't having an affair. | |
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| re: THE FERRYMAN: What am I missing? (major spoilers) | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 10:31 pm EST 01/06/19 | |
| In reply to: re: THE FERRYMAN: What am I missing? (major spoilers) - Ncassidine 06:08 pm EST 01/06/19 | |
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| SPOILERS REALLY???!!! They’re not having an affair...? Hmmm. Ok. |
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| re: THE FERRYMAN: What am I missing? (major spoilers) | |
| Posted by: Deirdre 08:49 am EST 01/07/19 | |
| In reply to: re: THE FERRYMAN: What am I missing? (major spoilers) - lordofspeech 10:31 pm EST 01/06/19 | |
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| No. They're not. I felt like it was pretty clear - she had confessed to the priest that she was in love with him but had never expressed that. In that last act, we find out that he loved her too, but had never expressed it. She jokes that she wishes they had been having sex the whole time. The tension is that her presence in the home, in taking over Mary's role as mother during her "virus", has created the impression that she is the wife and mother or would like to have been. Aunt Pat can see it and needles both women about it. Mary can also see it and that's why she wants to get rid of her now that Seamus' body has been found. | |
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| re: THE FERRYMAN: What am I missing? (major spoilers) | |
| Posted by: Ann 08:51 am EST 01/07/19 | |
| In reply to: re: THE FERRYMAN: What am I missing? (major spoilers) - Deirdre 08:49 am EST 01/07/19 | |
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| Thanks for that - perfectly explained (and jogging my memory, as I tried to remember the details). I thought the writing of those two characters (and their portrayals) was part of the strongest elements in the play. | |
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