| re: FAIRVIEW | |
| 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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