| re: Girl From The High Country - Shoot Me | |
| Posted by: FortPeck 10:42 am EST 02/08/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Girl From The High Country - Shoot Me - winters 07:03 am EST 02/08/20 | |
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| I love a smallish simple musical (I think, if we are talking about the same thing) - I was very moved by The Band's Visit, for one. It requires a delicate touch. SPOILERS I felt the writing in this was unsurmountably bad - on the nose and cliched, and with stilted dialogue. Example 1: Marianne and Joseph are wandering with her pregnant but not by him - OOF; Example 2: Mare Winningham character is suffering from dementia but still calls out truths from time to time (I bought this in The Ferryman but not here, and it feels like a tired trope at this point although I can't cite other examples now); Example 3: "You're pregnant? How did that happen?" - beat - "Oh, the usual way" = sitcom level dialogue; Example 4: the aforementioned narrator device. I was actively pained by the writing in a way I haven't been since Bright Star. The direction was also cliched to me - and there was lots of moving furniture on and off stage, already mic'ed performers huddling around microphones meaningfully, ugly and incoherent projections with tired telephone pole crucifix imagery. I could go on. It veered into near parody. I kept seeing Corky St. Clair's hand. I don't want to be rude, and I respect the difficulty of writing and of the creative process, but I was stunned by how disappointing this was. Only redeeming factor was the talent and musicianship evidenced by the cast, and of course the beautiful songs. The depth and elliptical sophistication of some of the lyrics served only to emphasize the flat obviousness of the dialogue and incidents on the stage. Unfortunate all around |
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