I completely understand what you are saying. Let's look at it from the other end for a second. It goes without saying that the nature of theatre is that things evolve (or at least should) as the show develops. Here a part of that process is that Angelica went off the charts, one could easily suggest because of Rene. Had some lesser being been "in the room where it happened" [sorry, but that really is an expression that is likely to endure forever in the way that Shakespeare added so many common expressions], the entire Angelica story might have receded. (As it is, it is a complicated story line that leaves other stones unturned, stones that I have heard others say left them feeling shortchanged.) Finally, and playing another angle of the devil, it is important to remember that Norman is teaching her version of storytelling craft, and there are others.
Anyway, just musing on a lazy Sunday morning (that just became Sunday afternoon while I wasn't looking.) |
