| THE COAST SKYLIGHT Today |
| Posted by: sergius 07:52 pm EDT 04/09/23 |
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| Having just seen two imperfect but adventuresome and interesting plays—THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN and PUBLIC OBSCENITIES—this was a disappointment. THE COAST SKYLIGHT is conventional and unsurprising. Within minutes it’s clear, more or less, where this train is going and how it will get there. The initial scenes are written in the conditional perfect tense which is irritatingly awkward and unnecessary as it telegraphs what’s already plain: these conversations aren’t really happening. Characters then board the train one at a time and tell their stories to each other—but don’t—an obvious and plodding device with decreasing impact. This is the kind of play that wants finally to bend material and subjective experience toward the cosmic and finds nothing new in the effort; it feints at profundity. Schematic and unconvincing, it’s a wholly middlebrow construction. |
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