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| Last Edit: writerkev 02:49 pm EDT 10/13/23 | |
| Posted by: writerkev 02:47 pm EDT 10/13/23 | |
| In reply to: Indelible Closing Images (some spoilers) - DanielVincent 02:39 pm EDT 10/13/23 | |
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| The recent Broadway production of "A Doll's House," where Nora left the house, and for the first time something was visible on the minimalist stage. At first I thought they put a car onstage, and what a wild image, Nora at the end of the play entering a clearly contemporary scene. Then I looked again and realized, no, that car wasn't onstage. I was looking at Jessica Chastain outside a loading dock door on the Manhattan sidewalk. There was Nora, alone in the big city, and she turned to look up the street with a "Now what?" expression on her face before the lights went down. So powerful and brilliant, and yes, indelible. |
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| Posted by: jjbkvm 09:07 am EDT 10/14/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Indelible Closing Images (some spoilers) - writerkev 02:47 pm EDT 10/13/23 | |
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| I agree I was at a Wednesday matinee and after the whole play which was spartan as well as monochromatic, the door opened and the theater was flooded with sun light and color. Nora walked through the door, looked up, left and right then exited into her brave new world. Chills! It’s unfortunate it couldn’t be experienced by the whole audience. | |
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| re: Indelible Closing Images (some spoilers) | |
| Posted by: huskyital 04:45 pm EDT 10/13/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Indelible Closing Images (some spoilers) - writerkev 02:47 pm EDT 10/13/23 | |
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| Having been born 74 years ago, and I am a rabid playgoer I might agree with my fellow theatergoers, but the only play that stunned me to sit in my seat after the show ended was journeys end. The play ends with one of the characters Raleigh dying, but the other characters march off to war with the audience, knowing that they would probably never return. World War I was such a senseless war. I couldn’t move out of my seat for quite a number of minutes crying. The production was brilliant, but I can’t understand why it was not successful. The other play that gripped me to death was the inheritance. I saw it first in London, and went all the men came down the aisle I wept. The production was also memorable, because Vanessa Redgrave was in it, and I was sitting in the first row center, and when she came out for her curtain call and she was 3 feet away from me, and I blew her a kiss, and she blew a kiss back to me. … what a great memory. | |
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