Friday, October 17, 2008
Radio Golf
Pittsburgh City Paper - Pittsburgh: "With Radio Golf, one of the most remarkable feats of American Theater draws to a close. August Wilson set out to write 10 plays, one for each decade of the 20th century. Radio Golf is the 1990s play and the last written by the Pittsburgh-born playwright. The sad truth is that Wilson wrote the play while he was dying and finished it shortly before his death from liver cancer, in 2005."
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While I haven't seen the play yet, I had a very heated discussion with a diehard August Wilson fan who had. She spoke about how Wilson plays have a certain rythym and musicality to them and that this production did not get that aspect of the speech right. I think that this might be a reason why the play wasn't very well recieved. There is a very specific speech pattern to Wilson plays that make them work, and if that is lost, the script drags on and on. It would be interesting to see this performed with a different cast and director and see if it was better recieved.
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