| You're not alone but clearly we are in the minority. I read the rave in the Times after I saw it and was really puzzled by the reviewer's intense reaction. She was so moved she had a hard time catching her breath as she left the theater. And the audience leapt to their feet for the curtain call (admittedly not a definitive gauge of their emotional reaction). The opening monologue was gorgeously written and beautifully played. But nothing comparable ever followed. The characters were sharply drawn and portrayed, but I never was able to fit their actions into a dramatic arc except for the 'two lonely people finding each other' ending. And this from a playwright who (as per Wikipedia) an L.A. critic said specializes in anti-sentimentality. I'm glad I saw it, if only for its slice of underrepresented lives aspect, but can't say I was moved the way most people seem to have been. As for the play's social issues, I felt that there were so many crammed into it, that they felt contrived, like that ending. |
