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| re: If it's funny to me, I'll laugh. | |
| Posted by: portenopete 05:25 pm EDT 04/10/21 | |
| In reply to: re: If it's funny to me, I'll laugh. - Michael_Portantiere 02:48 pm EDT 04/10/21 | |
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| I'll grant you that the LCT archival response was weaker than the Taper version or for the one I did. I can definitely imagine it would have gotten a bigger reaction than....nothing (IIRC). In Los Angeles the late and lovely Mark Blum was DHP's equal, I thought. And David Hull was a very sexy and funny Spike. I seem to be in the minority that liked Weaver, but having read all the Durang one-acts in my youth with her voice in my head (knowing she'd come up with him), I think of her as the supreme Durang interpreter. I have always thought her vague and airy line readings highlighted the lunacy and amoral utterances of his characters. And as you (or another in this thread) said, I think he is best lauded as a sketch writer. And that is meant to be a major complement. |
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| re: If it's funny to me, I'll laugh. | |
| Posted by: mikem 11:53 am EDT 04/11/21 | |
| In reply to: re: If it's funny to me, I'll laugh. - portenopete 05:25 pm EDT 04/10/21 | |
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| I would agree that there is some inconsistency to the characterizations from scene to scene. The Sonia smashing cups over nothing in the first scene has little resemblance to the Sonia we see later in the show. | |
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| re: If it's funny to me, I'll laugh. | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 02:56 pm EDT 04/11/21 | |
| In reply to: re: If it's funny to me, I'll laugh. - mikem 11:53 am EDT 04/11/21 | |
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| "The Sonia smashing cups over nothing in the first scene has little resemblance to the Sonia we see later in the show." Interesting, I never thought of it that way. My take is that Sonia has a lot of anger in her, much of it in regard to Masha, but also in regard to other aspects of her (Sonia's) life. At the beginning of the play, that anger comes out in the form of her smashing coffee cups, later she expresses some of her anger verbally, and eventually I think her anger begins to fade when she very unexpectedly meets a man who's interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with her, and also when it turns out that the house will not be sold out from under her and her brother. |
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