| re: Francis Ford Coppola's bizarre, surprising 1968 FINIAN'S RAINBOW |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 03:09 pm EDT 03/20/21 |
| In reply to: re: Francis Ford Coppola's bizarre, surprising 1968 FINIAN'S RAINBOW - singleticket 12:12 pm EDT 03/20/21 |
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"Coppola brought the book’s patchy politics into the era of the sit-ins, at least in part. I didn’t get a sense that the recent Broadway production had any interest in doing something similar. It seemed very pre-BLM... stepping around the racial politics of the original rather than engaging with them and hopefully bringing something new to them."
First of all, I thought we were discussing the Irish Rep production(s), but now you seem to be referencing the most recent Broadway revival. Anyway, whichever production you're referencing, you said in a previous post that you didn't see it. I hope you're not making these comments just based on your "sense" of what a production was like without having seen it.
P.S. I do think it was neat that the politics of FINIAN'S RAINBOW fit in so well with the sit-in era of the 1960s, but neither the Irish Rep productions nor the Broadway revival updated the action to the '60s, so obviously they didn't feel the politics needed to be updated in that way. Nor did I. |
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