| re: I know it's a 100+ year old play, but that's a big spoiler |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 10:35 am EST 02/21/19 |
| In reply to: I know it's a 100+ year old play, but that's a big spoiler - Ann 07:26 pm EST 02/20/19 |
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| The review is reasonably accurate. Mr Conner is indeed great in the lead role - but sadly this character sacrifices his wife's happiness, his daughter's prospects, and his son's education, as well as the financial security of his family for a 'moral' conviction which was stupid then and is stupid now. And he gets some support from his daughter for him being a man of convictions, even though they hurt her. This is a story that I can find any relevance for in 2019, when we are bombarded every day with restrictions being proposed in our country by bigots. I have no idea why the Mint, which I love, would revive a play that in its time 'honored' a man of conviction, no matter how wrong or destructive that conviction is. An orthodox Jew in the desert with no food of any kind other than pork, would eat the pork, and live. The 'hero' of this play would starve to death. |
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