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| In Sugar Land at NYTW | |
| Posted by: workerbee 08:23 pm EDT 03/20/22 | |
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| A collaboration of four major theaters has produced this huge production. 14 actors, an enormous set, and a 2 hour and 45 minute playtime. Author Harris has great moments, fantastic lines, and 2 really wonderful characters. But there are at least two tropes that don't bring any discovery and feel pedantic and expositional. What could have been an incredible 90 minute play about two women in an emblematic cul de sac dealing with loss, desire, and the ways Black women survive and don't- it ends ups inflated and overblown that the work ends up with a very muddy message: War Is Bad. But not even that, because of the last minute revelation that two major characters died differently than imagined- and this conclusion further confuses the drive of the play. More is not better. | |
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| re: In Sugar Land at NYTW | |
| Posted by: student_rush 11:43 am EDT 03/21/22 | |
| In reply to: In Sugar Land at NYTW - workerbee 08:23 pm EDT 03/20/22 | |
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| I mostly agree about ON* SUGARLAND. Certain nice moments and performances, but didn't ultimately cohere for me. I loathe plays that *feel* like plays, so basically from the downbeat I was at odds with this text. I understand the sprawling Greek aspects at play but that didn't mean it was intellectually or emotionally stimulating. |
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| re: In Sugarland | |
| Posted by: Dale 12:14 pm EDT 03/21/22 | |
| In reply to: re: In Sugar Land at NYTW - student_rush 11:43 am EDT 03/21/22 | |
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| A lot of busy work needed trimming... I guess a large cast was necessary for the church service scenes but what to do with actors for the rest of the story? | |
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