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| re: Jackie Sibblie Drury's FAIRVIEW Last Saturday in Chicago -- Great Experience, Recommended -- Any Thoughts about the 2018 Soho Rep Theatre Production? | |
| Posted by: student_rush 01:01 pm EDT 05/16/23 | |
| In reply to: Jackie Sibblie Drury's FAIRVIEW Last Saturday in Chicago -- Great Experience, Recommended -- Any Thoughts about the 2018 Soho Rep Theatre Production? - BroadwayTonyJ 12:37 pm EDT 05/16/23 | |
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| I saw the original production at TFANA in Brooklyn, and also saw the show with an African-American friend. Both of us loathed the experience -- not in an emotionally reactive way, but a "okay, this is a nice college thesis play" way. My takeaway was that the text is stronger than that original production, which I thought was tonally inconsistent and unfocused. It makes sense that better productions around the country are now happening. I'd be very interested in revisiting the text or seeing a second professional production. |
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| re: Jackie Sibblie Drury's FAIRVIEW Last Saturday in Chicago -- Great Experience, Recommended -- Any Thoughts about the 2018 Soho Rep Theatre Production? | |
| Posted by: singleticket 01:52 pm EDT 05/16/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Jackie Sibblie Drury's FAIRVIEW Last Saturday in Chicago -- Great Experience, Recommended -- Any Thoughts about the 2018 Soho Rep Theatre Production? - student_rush 01:01 pm EDT 05/16/23 | |
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| I saw it at TFANA as well. I liked it quite a bit. It took a while to catch up to its formal and thematic intent but that was part of the fun. I thought the opposite that the text felt to me more like something that wouldn't make as much sense unless it was performed because it was more of a collage of dialogue mirroring and commenting on itself than the dialogue itself. But I haven't read it either so I don't know. | |
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| Jackie Sibblie Drury's FAIRVIEW Last Saturday in Chicago | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 05:37 pm EDT 05/16/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Jackie Sibblie Drury's FAIRVIEW Last Saturday in Chicago -- Great Experience, Recommended -- Any Thoughts about the 2018 Soho Rep Theatre Production? - singleticket 01:52 pm EDT 05/16/23 | |
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| If I had read the play's text before seeing a staging, I don't think I could have appreciated the humor, cleverness, and power of the dialogue, which by itself without any context is rather ordinary. However, seeing the play beautifully performed a few days ago allowed me to experience its emotional wallop. Also, based on the comments I read on this board and other sources in 2018, I chose not to see Fairview on a trip I made to New York at the end of June that year. I got the impression that as a white person, I would be shamed or criticized during part 4 of the play. However, after reading a good deal about Fairview over the last few years and realizing what the writer was trying to say, I was completely blown away by the actual performance. My take-away of being a participant in part 4 was the opposite of what I thought it would be. |
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