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| Last Edit: singleticket 08:12 pm EDT 08/24/19 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 08:07 pm EDT 08/24/19 | |
| In reply to: “The Rolling Stone” this afternoon.. - Leon_W 07:38 pm EDT 08/24/19 | |
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| I haven't seen it but I've read that the play only peripherally touches on the responsibility of American Evangelicals in whipping up hatred against gay people in African countries like Uganda. | |
| Link | How Uganda was seduced by anti-gay conservative evangelicals |
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| re: “The Rolling Stone” this afternoon.. | |
| Posted by: Leon_W 08:14 pm EDT 08/24/19 | |
| In reply to: re: “The Rolling Stone” this afternoon.. - singleticket 08:07 pm EDT 08/24/19 | |
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| There is only one line where they reference the American involvement. A few reviews have said that a play about this would have been a more interesting examination of the issues than presented. This play was a family drama really, if people want that other play they would have preferred then they can go and write it | |
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| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 08:09 pm EDT 08/25/19 | |
| In reply to: re: “The Rolling Stone” this afternoon.. - Leon_W 08:14 pm EDT 08/24/19 | |
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| That it was more a family drama didn't bother me--and I WOULD like to see that other play--US Christian evangelicals have a lot to answer for in terms of persecution of LGBTQ people in some countries in Africa. But, even though I am glad the play is out there and that more people are aware of the crisis in Uganda the play documents, I wish the play had been better written and better constructed. Some of it seemed so didactic--by which I don't mean "preachy" (that goes with the territory), but seemed to explain things in too teacherly a fashion. I also think the plot construction was really imbalanced. I get that Act I needs to set up the situation and the character relationships, but SO much of what exposition--and then the second act was so filled with plot development after plot development that it seemed as if they had to race to tie up whatever loose ends they choose to tie up (obviously, the end doesn't necessarily have a neat knot). I also thought some of the character motivation and choices were a little hard to accept. SPOILER: By that I mean I'm not sure the doctor (Sam) would have stayed there a minute after the first homophobic incident, and I sure as hell don't think our central character (Dembe) would have stayed in the church, waiting with his siblings for the angry crowd to enter. People died during this period. It's not really "The Crucible," with John Proctor willing to be SPOILER hanged for his conscience. END OF SPOILER: That said, I thought the acting was first-rate across the board. I haven't seen Myra Lucretia Taylor since her wonderful turn as Seraghina in the Banderas revival of "Nine." The character as written and her performance made me want to see her play Mother Courage--has she done it, does anyone know? I also thought the staging was economical and solid. So, worth going to, but it did seem like a first or second play for the writer, in terms of learning the craft of playwriting. |
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| re: “The Rolling Stone” this afternoon.. | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 11:56 pm EDT 08/25/19 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 11:55 pm EDT 08/25/19 | |
| In reply to: re: “The Rolling Stone” this afternoon.. - BruceinIthaca 08:09 pm EDT 08/25/19 | |
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| I don't know about Mother Courage, but Myra Lucretia Tayor recently played Prospero in "The Tempest", part of the NY Public Theater's outreach tour program I believe. She has worked pretty steadily off-Broadway and in regionals like Williamstown quite a bit as well as on Broadway. | |
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| SPOILER REQUEST: “The Rolling Stone” this afternoon.. | |
| Posted by: D2025 12:29 am EDT 08/25/19 | |
| In reply to: re: “The Rolling Stone” this afternoon.. - Leon_W 08:14 pm EDT 08/24/19 | |
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| For those of us who couldn't see it, what was the chilling twist? | |
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| re: SPOILER REQUEST: “The Rolling Stone” this afternoon.. | |
| Last Edit: Leon_W 05:11 am EDT 08/25/19 | |
| Posted by: Leon_W 05:02 am EDT 08/25/19 | |
| In reply to: SPOILER REQUEST: “The Rolling Stone” this afternoon.. - D2025 12:29 am EDT 08/25/19 | |
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| One of the characters is a woman who it is hinted at that she was ostracized by the community and it turns out it was because she had a baby without being married, her school girl daughter cannot speak after trauma and it turns out that daughter had been pregnant and the mother wouldn’t let her have the same life experience. The twist is that a recently murdered gay school boy was actually the daughter’s loving boyfriend and the devout Christian mother had used the anti gay panic to get rid of him out of their lives by reporting him to the newspaper as gay and she felt no guilt about doing so. | |
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| re: SPOILER REQUEST: “The Rolling Stone” this afternoon.. | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 08:10 pm EDT 08/25/19 | |
| In reply to: re: SPOILER REQUEST: “The Rolling Stone” this afternoon.. - Leon_W 05:02 am EDT 08/25/19 | |
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| Yes, that's the aspect of her character that made me think of Mother Courage (not the sentimentalized view some have, but Brecht's amoral, self-serving character as written) | |
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