| re: COST OF LIVING - I have questions (spoiler requests) | |
| Last Edit: mikem 03:34 pm EDT 11/05/22 | |
| Posted by: mikem 03:28 pm EDT 11/05/22 | |
| In reply to: COST OF LIVING ... what am I missing? - student_rush 01:40 pm EDT 11/05/22 | |
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| I think I liked the show a lot more than OP did, although a lot less than some others on the board. (major spoilers) I had trouble with the timeline at the end. Is the encounter between Kara Young's character and David Zayas's character supposed to be happening on the same night as her bad encounter with Gregg Mogzala? She's still wearing the purple dress, which seems like an odd choice to wear if she is trying to stay warm. If it's the same night, does that mean she was living in her car the whole time? And was the phone call to her mother also that same night? (And if someone could describe the general gist of the phone call conversation, that would be great!) I didn't have a problem with the coincidental meeting at the end. The two stories have to intersect in some fashion, and I liked that method much better than the one I devised in my head, which was that Kara Young's character was the woman who was living with Zayas towards the beginning of the play, partially spurred on by her initial answer that she was trying to learn something to Mozgala's question about why she wanted the job. I was glad that wasn't what ended up happening. I realize that it's not the playwright's responsibility to make a play that gives voice to a group, and part of my reaction is due to the way the play was portrayed in advertising and in the press, but I wasn't expecting that the play was really about the caregivers rather than the disabled characters. Katy Sullivan in particular is fantastic, but the two disabled characters have so much less of an arc than the two caregiver characters that they felt too close to being plot devices for my taste. The disabled character's situation is an avenue for the non-disabled character to grow and change. Mozgala's character in particular has no arc at all and plays out like a stereotype. And I was completely confused by the relationship between Zayas and Sullivan, in particular by the choices he makes. From the opening monologue, it seems that he thinks the world of her, but is that only because he's seeing a dead person through rose-colored glasses, or would he have felt that way even if she were still alive? It seems that prior to her accident, they were already separated and he had started a relationship with someone else. It seems the separation was not her idea. So they had issues before the start of the play's action, although the characters never discuss what those issues had been. He's still living with the other woman when he volunteers to be Sullivan's caretaker. What is his motivation for taking on that role? There are lots of possible motivations. The playwright doesn't have to spell everything out, but I found it hard to follow his arc when I didn't feel like I understood key components to his journey. Katy Sullivan was really fantastic, though. There is so much going on inside her character's head all at once, and she lets us in on all of it. |
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