| re: What a weekend! |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 08:51 pm EDT 10/27/20 |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:42 pm EDT 10/27/20 |
| In reply to: What a weekend! - Pashacar 10:55 am EDT 10/26/20 |
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Last week a friend who had seen Heroes at Playwrights told me it was on this week and urged me to watch it. I'm so glad I did. I was floored. I had a very few reservations although I wonder if they might evaporate upon another reading or viewing. What a fascinating, wrenching play. Terrific cast with particular praise to Julia McDermott but that may be because she had the most sympathetic character and she nailed that amazing (and extremely difficult) monologue at the end. If there’s a United States of America in 50 or 100 years, this play will tell people so much about this time in our history (unless it becomes incomprehensible to people other than specialists in American history).
Re Death of a Salesman: I saw the production onstage but have never seen the televised version. I must try to see it. I liked the production a great deal, but the play never fully worked for me in performance till Mike Nichols's production. I think a good case can be made that Dennehy and Franz were better casting for Willy and Linda and in many ways gave better performances than Hoffman and Emond, but Nichols's choice to use Mielziner's set made the production a revelation for me. It so captured the world where these people live. The production as a whole had a unity that set it apart. The play added up for me as it hadn't before. |
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