Pittsburgh Current: As Tennessee Williams’ immortal Blanche DuBois once said: “Sometimes – there’s God – so quickly!” I don’t want to compare Blanche’s horrifying situation to my own; I mean, she’s being carted off to the looney bin and I’m just depressed having spent so much of my life watching bad theater. But I can relate to Blanche’s amazement when something beautifully unexpected happens. (Since there’s no God I need to do a rewrite.) “Sometimes – there’s a wonderful play – so quickly!”
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This sounds like an incredible new work! The writer of this article does a really good job of explaining each character and why they’re powerful within the simple plot. While I do think they overuse that one quote from A Streetcar Named Desire, I understand that the writer of this article just really enjoyed a new work, which even at CMU; it’s hard to make a new work of theatre. Like even Way Out West, which should be considered a new work because it was being revised while students were in rehearsal, felt like a new work when watching it. In addition, the way this Pittsburgh Theatre Critic describes Melda Beaty’s writing and thoughtfulness of her characters is insane. I also would like to think that I would enjoy a theatrical performance about Obama being elected. I really like knowing that there are more plays being written and old plays being adapted because of our current political climate.
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