Saturday, April 24, 2010
'Time of My Life' gives a taste of Broadway
Post Gazette: "Time of My Life," which opened Thursday at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, is two hours of charmingly comic professional theater, with 30 minutes of pathos for the finale.
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I saw Alan's The Norman Conquests on Broadway and he is just a smart playwright who is able to convey humor in such an interesting way. It is grounded in reality but jumps to fantasy in a seamless way and then at the last moment it gets sad, crushing and you feel for his characters. The Norman Conquests was such an interesting play, and I expect this one to be as well when I see it on tuesday. Can't wait!
I think its interesting that there's been this trend of doing plays about dysfunctional families and how there is always the wicked mother,brother,sister, father, ect... I don't really know what that means for today's society that theaters are choosing to include these types of shows in their seasons. Also, my group is studying Awake and Sing for foundations which also depicts an overbearing mother. Its cool to see the similarities between the two shows. In the review it mentioned that the mother drives off the women in her son's lives and the mother in Awake and Sing tries to the same thing to her son. Its interesting that playwrights will analyze and break down the family unit like that and it makes me wonder if some unhappy families are unhappy in the same ways as others, contrary to Tolstoy's quote.
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