| re: A line in Green's "Riverside and Crazy" review |
| Last Edit: singleticket 01:25 pm EST 12/21/22 |
| Posted by: singleticket 01:18 pm EST 12/21/22 |
| In reply to: re: A line in Green's "Riverside and Crazy" review - singleticket 12:42 pm EST 12/21/22 |
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I agree with this from Green's review:
Complications like that are unpleasant for absolutists; Guirgis’s needling of victimhood may please as few people on the left as his needling of Rudolph Giuliani may rile those on the right. Along with anyone who can’t tolerate profanity, which is basically the play’s linguistic glue, they will have a hard time warming to a playwright who isn’t interested in telling us what’s right. He only wants to show us what’s real.
Whether Guirgis's representation of the characters' world is based on personal experience or entirely made up his refusal of both miserablism and finger-wagging in favor of a fond but unsparing comic tone makes the play's characters feel more real than most plays about people who are struggling economically under the effects of class and racism. |
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