| re: Has anyone seen 'If Pretty Hurts...' at Playwrights Horizons? | |
| Posted by: Showtunegal 05:16 pm EST 02/21/19 | |
| In reply to: Has anyone seen 'If Pretty Hurts...' at Playwrights Horizons? - ksd 11:51 am EST 02/21/19 | |
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| Parts of it were great, but the playwright is young and no one told her to cut! There's a LONG extended fable that forms the center of it, which could have been so much shorter--I found that part predictable and very dragged out, but if the fable had been a lot shorter, it could have really appealed to me. The total running time was over 2 hours. BUT the ideas were interesting and there were two dance numbers that were terrific. I found it odd that there was an insert in the program from the playwright, encouraging us to "vocalize" during the performance, but then only the very opening bit of the play really encouraged any audience participation. As I left the theater and was walking along 42 street, two young women, I'd say early 20s, were talking about how much they loved it--how the final scene, in which a teenager puts on her make up etc bit by bit, was brave and hard to watch. And then I crossed the street and two other people were saying "oh god, that was so long! Cut cut cut" Hope that's helpful! | |
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