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Happy Solstice!
Jun. 21st, 2009 05:17 pmThough given the pouring rain and rather brisk wind, perhaps not the best time for skyclad ritualing. :-(
Happy Father's Day to those of you celebrating it as well. I grew up in a single parent household (Mom) so I tend to forget there's something else that goes on today.
Silver Moon word count:
More work on sundry other things as well.
Yesterday, we were fortunate enough to inherit some cheap tickets from a friend of a friend to The Guthrie's production of The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism, with a Key to the Scriptures, Tony Kusher's latest opus (and I suspect, only play to date that mentions Minneapolis). I should say that if you're thinking of checking it out, there's a lot of it - 3.5 hours to be precise. What can you pack into 3.5 hours of theater? An enormous amount of family dysfunction, political debate, mostly on fairly sectarian topics within the American Left, infidelity, suicide and union organizing with sidebars on religion and sex. The sets are very well done and the staging is quite interesting. We loved most of the performances. And it held our attention throughout, something I can't say about all serious dramas that I've seen staged, regardless of playwright reputation. On the down side, there are substantial sections where all the actors talk at once. Sure, it seems more realistic, but it's mostly annoying. Word was that Kushner was and has been changing the dialogue throughout the production so there was some stumbling on delivery. And the ending seemed a bit...silly and unfinished, given the rest of what you'd just sat through. It's an interesting mess though and I'm really curious to see what remains when he finally finishes tinkering with it.
Happy Father's Day to those of you celebrating it as well. I grew up in a single parent household (Mom) so I tend to forget there's something else that goes on today.
Silver Moon word count:
More work on sundry other things as well.
Yesterday, we were fortunate enough to inherit some cheap tickets from a friend of a friend to The Guthrie's production of The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism, with a Key to the Scriptures, Tony Kusher's latest opus (and I suspect, only play to date that mentions Minneapolis). I should say that if you're thinking of checking it out, there's a lot of it - 3.5 hours to be precise. What can you pack into 3.5 hours of theater? An enormous amount of family dysfunction, political debate, mostly on fairly sectarian topics within the American Left, infidelity, suicide and union organizing with sidebars on religion and sex. The sets are very well done and the staging is quite interesting. We loved most of the performances. And it held our attention throughout, something I can't say about all serious dramas that I've seen staged, regardless of playwright reputation. On the down side, there are substantial sections where all the actors talk at once. Sure, it seems more realistic, but it's mostly annoying. Word was that Kushner was and has been changing the dialogue throughout the production so there was some stumbling on delivery. And the ending seemed a bit...silly and unfinished, given the rest of what you'd just sat through. It's an interesting mess though and I'm really curious to see what remains when he finally finishes tinkering with it.