Sunday, November 04, 2007
Aaron Sorkin - The Farnsworth Invention
New York Times: "THE souvenir shop in Shubert Alley, the heart of the theater district, wasn’t open the other morning as Aaron Sorkin walked by, but he stopped and squinted in the window. Frowning, he expressed disappointment that the “Wicked” T-shirts were stacked untidily on a shelf, the logos unaligned. Mr. Sorkin once worked in this very shop, in the fall of 1983, when he was fresh from studying musical theater at Syracuse University and came to New York to get work as an actor."
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this is unbelievable. Sorkin is one of my favorite writers, I had no clue this was his. And Des Mackenof is directing; I have to see this thing. I think that Sorkin's writing for film and television has always felt like stage material because the dialouge always has that definate ark, but I never knew he wrote for the stage first. Now it makes perfect sense.
I was a huge fan of both "Sports Night" and "Studio 60" and I highly recommend everyone to go out and rent to DVDs ASAP. His writing has a knack for hallway-talk, where people are constantly moving while talking and there is always a sense of action even though the main focus is in the dialog. I was very disappointed when "Studio 60" was canceled because it looked like Sorkin's way of connecting theatre and television.
One of my friends recently saw his show and had mixed reviews. To him, it seemed lacking in some way and not up to the same level as his other work, as if Sorkin was writing only for himself. Perhaps he was, as this being his first time back in a while. I am glad he is getting to do what he wants however, and hopefully his plays will continue to improve as he spends more time on this cost.
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