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| re: The Walter Kerr review | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:02 pm EDT 05/26/23 | |
| In reply to: re: The Walter Kerr review - AlanScott 04:39 pm EDT 05/26/23 | |
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| I am linking Atkinson's opening-night review of Death of a Salesman. His Sunday followup piece can easily be found online. This review is more specific than I think of Atkinson as generally being. And it is probably as much of a rave as anything he ever wrote. I can't put into words the stylistic differences between this and that Dear Evan Hansen Atkinson review. Perhaps someone else can. But there are certainly things in the fake review that I just can't imagine Atkinson ever writing. Also, I can't imagine him writing that kind of all-out rave for Dear Evan Hansen. Not because I think he might not have liked it, but because such all-out raves — the Death of a Salesman review is one — were rare from Atkinson. Perhaps I would say that there is a quietness even to Atkinson's raves, and that is missing from the Dear Evan Hansen review. |
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| Link | Atkinson on Death of a Salesman |
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| re: The Walter Kerr review | |
| Posted by: garyd 08:28 pm EDT 05/26/23 | |
| In reply to: re: The Walter Kerr review - AlanScott 05:02 pm EDT 05/26/23 | |
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| "he evokes a wraith-like tragedy". This phrase has always stayed with me from the first time I read this review. Such a poetic and accurate description of the play. | |
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| re: The Walter Kerr review | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:23 pm EDT 05/26/23 | |
| In reply to: re: The Walter Kerr review - garyd 08:28 pm EDT 05/26/23 | |
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| And I don't think of Atkinson as having been poetic very often, but it shows that he could be when inspired. | |
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