The Official Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, Part 3- Page 88

[keen on kean]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 6:50pm

I just started reading HOMECOMING - Raul certainly loves the challenging stuff. I'm tensing up just reading it.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 7:07pm

I'm looking forward to diving into the meat of it, but I must be crass and admit that when I saw in the synopsis on the back that the younger brothers "make increasingly outrageous passes at their sister-in-law until they are practically making love to her in front of her stunned by strangely aloof husband," I grinned a little bit.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 7:58pm

That makes it even more exciting! I hope it lasts long enough for me to see it.

[misschung]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 8:50pm

woah, Emcee - where is that synopsis?

I should calm down and act my age, but I have to come clean - I want to see how that's portrayed on stage. Oh hell, if we can absorb and understand it on an intellectual level, why not have a little fun with it too? Life's too short, heh

Keen, I was tensing up reading it as well. I can't wait to finish it, probably tonight. I feel like Raul is so talented that he doesn't "need" music in order to give a powerful performance. Not that music is added fluff in a musical - it's part of the form and integral to the work - but I think there are actors who don't shine as strongly without being able to sing. I'm excited for this

[keen on kean]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 8:53pm

I think Raul plus McShane as his dad will add up to be a very tense evening. I'm planning on finishing the play tonight and hope I can do it without resorting to a stiff drink. The version I have is only 87 pages - think they will do it without an intermission, a la TALk RADIO?

[misschung]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 8:57pm

Mine is 82. They might - I have never seen it performed, so I don't know how "long" it really is, you know?

[keen on kean]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 9:05pm

I haven't seen any Pinter performed either - it may be, that with pauses, it is three hours!

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 9:19pm

Wow! 87 pages? I have an old copy of the play - VERY old - its dated 1965, from Samuel French in London. The whole play is 43 pages, with an additional 7 pages of furniture and property lists, and lighting and effects cues. Two acts, three scenes in act one, two in act two.

Hopefully a good director will add some....brevity to the pauses.

Um, they did make a film of it, in 1973, but I don't know how commercially available that film is, if at all. (It's listed on IMDb).
The Homecoming 1973

[misschung]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 9:49pm

Interesting. They don't have that in my library system, or Amazon, but they have it on cduniverse.

Yeah, there are lots of pauses in the play.
homecoming

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 10:32pm

It's listed as a comedy???
Pinter may be many things, but comedic is not the first thing I think of...or the second, third or fourth....

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 10:59pm

There's a copy on ebay right now, and a couple more available from the UK.
ebay The Homecoming search results

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 10:59pm

Ugh. My very first double post....

Updated On: 7/27/07 at 10:59 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/27/07 at 11:59pm

Mine is 82. It's the Grove Press version.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 7/28/07 at 10:56am

Oops - I have the Grove Press too and it is 82 pages - and 5 blanks!

[misschung]

Posted: 7/28/07 at 11:38am

Random gift from Raul googling:


Simply because of the white shirt/cross combo

[MotorTink]

Posted: 7/28/07 at 11:39am

I don't know if it is a "I'm stoned" look or a "woe is me" look!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/28/07 at 12:21pm

Can we add "drunk" to that combo list?

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 7/28/07 at 12:34pm

Ow. That looks.....painful.
Do you know when/where that's from?

[MotorTink]

Posted: 7/28/07 at 1:42pm

I didn't even see your above post humbug, but that is exactly how I just got my copy of The Homecoming, ebay. $.50 for the book, $4.00 shipping. I can't complain.

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 7/28/07 at 1:54pm

Yay ebay! I love ebay. I shudder to think how much stuff I threw out before ebay existed because there wasn't anywhere I could sell it.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 7/28/07 at 1:58pm

I used to buy all my books brand new, read them once, and then put them on a shelf to collect dust. Don't get me wrong, I love my book collection, but it gets expensive. So I have actually been selling them on ebay, and then using the profits to buy good used condition ones off ebay for cheap. I got The Homecoming, Ragtime, and The Phantom of Manhattan today (oh shush, it will be a guilty pleasure read! hehe). All for under $13 w/ shipping.

[misschung]

Posted: 7/28/07 at 2:09pm

I never even thought of ebay for books. In the past, I've gotten books from amazon and alibris for like $.40 - it's great! Between that and the library, you can save lots of money. As much as I love borrowing books, there are some that you just need to own.

Humbug - that picture is a fan photo from Euan Morton's concert at Joe's Pub. Speaking of the Taboo boys, it really is unfair to have that many good looking men on stage at once. sigh..

[keen on kean]

Posted: 7/28/07 at 2:36pm

I am also reading the CASEBOOK edited by John Lahr - very helpful for those of us who are just being introduced to Pinter and this play for the first time. Thank you to the earlier post for mentioning it. If this play is as brutal and explicit as it seems, I will definitely have to break out the scotch. Soon. But also, and more importantly, brilliant.

I am dying to know who will be cast as Ruth - it is, after all, a pivotal role. Any thoughts?
Updated On: 7/28/07 at 02:36 PM

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 7/28/07 at 3:04pm

You can get absolutely anything on ebay, even things that would never occur to you to look for. The only problem is shipping - it just seems so odd to me to pay one cent for a book and then four dollars for shipping.

Another site I like to get books at is http://www.abebooks.com/
It's like a clearinghouse of just about every used book store in the English-speaking world. It'd be fair to say if you can't find it on abebooks, it doesn't exist.

[misschung]

Posted: 7/28/07 at 3:07pm

cool, thanks!