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| Posted by: student_rush 10:59 pm EDT 06/23/19 | |
| In reply to: FAIRVIEW - Shutterbug 10:21 pm EDT 06/23/19 | |
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| To provide an alternative viewpoint, I think the text presents an interesting conversation about how black characters are viewed by predominately white characters. That being said, I think the production's direction fails at every turn - the vocabulary is muddled and fails to define differing worlds and implicate the audience in the play's destruction before the fourth wall-breaking conclusion. We will absolutely see sharper (better) productions of FAIRVIEW in the future with different directors at the helm. The final monologue is the straw that breaks the camel's back. It is neither shocking in the way the play purports it to be ... a masturbatory exercise in "disrupting" theatrical conventions, without any emotional connection to the characters or stakes of the evening. The young woman made a reference about "the show being over faster" if we got on stage faster, and it got one of the heartier laughs of the night - this entire exercise reeks of "college thesis mandatory talkback" and is weighed down by its own pretension. It was also a real "fuck you" to a nonprofit company whose audience is predominately older and white ... so we should be shamed for buying tickets and seeing the show? I am young and white, but my queer POC playwright friend that I attended the show with hated it more than I did. This is the kind of theatre (in addition to my STRANGE LOOP conversation below in a different thread) which makes it clear it is IMPORTANT and SERIOUS. Spare me. |
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| re: FAIRVIEW | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 08:15 am EDT 06/25/19 | |
| In reply to: re: FAIRVIEW - student_rush 10:59 pm EDT 06/23/19 | |
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| "It was also a real "fuck you" to a nonprofit company whose audience is predominately older and white ... so we should be shamed for buying tickets and seeing the show?" So on a theater board, you claim that being asked to stand on stage so you can be looked at is shaming? |
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| re: FAIRVIEW | |
| Posted by: student_rush 09:51 am EDT 06/25/19 | |
| In reply to: re: FAIRVIEW - whereismikeyfl 08:15 am EDT 06/25/19 | |
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| Are you joking? I was grinning like an idiot ... it was cool to be standing on the stage at TFANA! It was probably less cool for the seventy year-old white audience members who have loyally been subscribing to a theatre company that is now asking them to stand up and walk up to the stage (or take an elevator, as some of the crew pointed out - give me a break). That speaks more to my point, however, that the moment failed for me. I had zero emotional attachment to any of the characters - white or black - and felt no guilt as a collective audience for my behavior at the show because we had no connection to any of the preceding action. I knew the show would be over faster if we moved faster, and that was about it. |
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| re: FAIRVIEW | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 11:06 am EDT 06/25/19 | |
| In reply to: re: FAIRVIEW - student_rush 09:51 am EDT 06/25/19 | |
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| So it was not a fuck you, but something enjoyable? | |
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| re: FAIRVIEW | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 04:00 pm EDT 06/24/19 | |
| In reply to: re: FAIRVIEW - student_rush 10:59 pm EDT 06/23/19 | |
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| "It was also a real "fuck you" to a nonprofit company whose audience is predominately older and white ... so we should be shamed for buying tickets and seeing the show?" I don't see it as an F U, but either way, this feels like appropriate penance for getting a pass for the ways in which African bodies were predominantly excluded from and marginalized in "The Emperor". |
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| I agree with student rush’s assessment | |
| Posted by: gad90210 06:13 am EDT 06/24/19 | |
| In reply to: re: FAIRVIEW - student_rush 10:59 pm EDT 06/23/19 | |
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| The play left my friend and I cold and annoyed. I didn’t feel any emotional connection at all to the proceedings. | |
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| I was technically annoyed | |
| Posted by: Genealley 01:58 pm EDT 06/24/19 | |
| In reply to: I agree with student rush’s assessment - gad90210 06:13 am EDT 06/24/19 | |
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| Thought: Part 1 was tame and clichéd (meant to be, I guess) Part 2 was interesting but the haranguing ultimately wore me down Part 3 was unbelievably strange and a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience Part 4 was alienating (also meant to be) But my problem was: I couldn't hear the actress in Part 4. Well, maybe that was part of the alienation. But a big bummer. |
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