IRENA'S VOW Reviews — Page 2

Entertainment Weekly gives it an A-

"There are strong performances from the entire cast, but the play is truly Feldshuh's. The actress lends a gravity and fierce verve to her depiction of Irena that is utterly believable. 'I had to choose,' Feldshuh says as she begins relating Irena's story, 'between life and death.' That heavy, yet hopeful, sentiment is the crux of this heartrending production."

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20268712,00.html

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Is it weird that the review I most agreed with (although it was a BIT too enthusiastic) was the Word Of Mouth review? ...and the EW review.

Updated On: 3/29/09 at 10:23 PM

Told you about Isherwood. He was visibly not enjoying himself.

And I, for one, think his review is dead-on.

Wow, I don't think I've ever seen sich a group of mixed reviews ever in my life. Best of luck with the other reviews though!

I TOTALLY agree.

Respectfully disagree, but in my opinion, Isherwood's review pretty much hit the nail on the head.

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"Isherwood would probably rave about ROCK OF AGES. His review of IRENA'S VOW could not be more wrong. I despise him."


Further proof of why you shouldn't be allowed to discuss theatre/art: you don't ever give opinions, you give facts. Isherwood's review is "wrong"? Really! Here I was thinking different people have different opinions on different things. But, no, apparently, there's just right and wrong. And then icing on the cake, you DESPISE him? Because he disagreed with you on a show you raved about as on the o-m-g most amazing and moving thing you've ever seen in your entire life? That's just disgusting. Do I despise you because we have different opinions? No, I despise you because you're an arrogant, bitchy little theatre queen who specializes in behind-your-back name-calling, and personalizing things to the point of DESPISING someone because they have a different opinion than you on a show.

And for the record: ROCK OF AGES succeeds more at what it's trying to be than IRENA'S VOW, and while I wouldn't "recommend" either show, I'd much rather sit through ROCK OF AGES again.

Updated On: 3/30/09 at 12:31 AM

I'm not picking on you because I don't like you or something. You're just saying ridiculous things and I feel like responding. Neither one of us needs to curb what we want to write on here...

Isherwood would probably rave about ROCK OF AGES. His review of IRENA'S VOW could not be more wrong. I despise him.

Since when can someone's opinion be "wrong"? And is this worth despising someone over? Really? Must be awfully miserable going through life despising people who disagree with you.

Ugh, please. You just said you had the RIGHT opinion and that you DESPISE Isherwood because he had the wrong one. Sounds like you're the one personalizing stuff. If you want to discuss theatre, fine, but if you're going to throw a fit when someone calls you out on ridiculous, bitchy, argumentative things you say then, how bout this? Don't say them. Think about them before they escape your brain.

But seriously, I have no interest in having a catty back-and-forth with you on here. Just stick to the topic and don't shriek 'personal attacks!!' when someone responds to your comments.

Because people aren't all you and you are not all people. I'm sure everyone has one badly-reviewed movie that they love. Or some food item that everyone else thinks is weird. Or some silly Holocaust drama with tepid critical response that they adore.


It's critical opinion. Not personal attack.

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Updated On: 3/30/09 at 12:44 AM

Ugh, whatever. Is there a doctor in the house? Anyway.

Perhaps these reviews and the potential forthcoming lackluster buzz/box office/consensus/etc. might result in the TONY going to Gay Harden rather than Feldshuh?

Every cloud...

Updated On: 3/30/09 at 12:56 AM

Scott Thomas gave a better performance than Gay Harden in my opinion (and I believe she got better critical reviews).

I see Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter's performances tomorrow night, so that may stir this race up as well.