tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post111815729121018520..comments2024-01-07T06:59:04.212-05:00Comments on The Playgoer: "Stuff" DOESN'T Happen in NYPlaygoerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02994724588504353485noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1118273760624013042005-06-08T19:36:00.000-04:002005-06-08T19:36:00.000-04:00Rumors are it will be in NYC after all...Rumors are it will be in NYC after all...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1118245797518030602005-06-08T11:49:00.000-04:002005-06-08T11:49:00.000-04:00I agree with this poster. David Hare's simple pol...I agree with this poster. David Hare's simple polemics may not be "wrong" but are they useful? Allowing a smug upper-middle-class white audience to feel even more smug about their privilege, which they justify by going to plays like this one, is hardly a risk. In fact, many of the "classics" into which Gordon might have "retreated" offer a far more provocative and challenging take on contemporary life: Oedipus, Hamlet, or Rosemersholm, anyone? Gordon might have looked at his own demons by staging The Master Builder -- now THAT would have been a way to go out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1118173051381399242005-06-07T15:37:00.000-04:002005-06-07T15:37:00.000-04:00Touchee... Perhaps I should have qualified by say...Touchee... Perhaps I should have qualified by saying something like: "How sad that the ONLY way for a prominent American theatre company to produce an anti-War play is in Hollywood and if it has a classy British pedigree."... I'm also waiting for someone to say "Hey, Playgoer--what about Tim Robbins's Embedded? That played at the Public last year and now is going to be a movie." Yeah, but too bad Embdedded sucked!Playgoerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02994724588504353485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1118171506764340002005-06-07T15:11:00.000-04:002005-06-07T15:11:00.000-04:00A "Profile in Theatrical Courage"? I'm not so sure...A "Profile in Theatrical Courage"? I'm not so sure.<BR/><BR/>Call me a reactionary, but I don't think it's all that courageous to mount a production critical of Bush, Cheney et. al. at a large, cushy regional theater in left-leaning Los Angeles.<BR/><BR/>In fact, with a brand name playwright and a Royal National Theatre pedigree, this seems about the safest bet the folks at the Mark Taper Forum could make.<BR/><BR/>A vituperative rant of a play by an unknown writer? That would be something.<BR/><BR/>A work that challenged the values of the Taper's upper-middle class, liberal audience? That might be impressive.<BR/><BR/>Granted, Davidson may not be pandering to his "base"--he may actually believe in this play. But scheduling it is hardly courageous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com