MEDIEVAL PLAY

[Borstalboy]

MEDIEVAL PLAY#1

Posted: 5/22/12 at 11:52am

At the Signature. Anyone see it?

Caught it last night and it is heartbreakingly disappointing.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[AC126748]

MEDIEVAL PLAY#2

Posted: 5/22/12 at 1:00pm

It's a mess, which is sadly something you can say about so much of Lonergan's corpus. Here's a writer who started out with so much promise and produced several killer works, but has lately bogged himself down in banal, overstuffed, meaningless projects.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[frogs_fan85]

MEDIEVAL PLAY#2

Posted: 5/22/12 at 1:13pm

I saw the first act last night.

On some level I feel like it's intentionally a mess or something.

Updated On: 5/22/12 at 01:13 PM

[Play Esq.]

MEDIEVAL PLAY#3

Posted: 5/22/12 at 2:07pm

First act? So bad you had to leave?

Really sorry to hear it if true. I was looking forward to this.

[frogs_fan85]

MEDIEVAL PLAY#4

Posted: 5/22/12 at 2:46pm

Yes, it's a disaster on all levels.

The only plus for me was Halley Feiffer running around in a sheer nightgown for 10 minutes.

[HogansHero]

MEDIEVAL PLAY#5

Posted: 5/22/12 at 3:41pm

I agree with others that it is a mess, but I think it will improve (only 1 week of previews so far), and that it is nonetheless interesting and worth seeing. If you don't like big sloppy theatre, this is not for you, however.

[Unknown User]

MEDIEVAL PLAY#6

Posted: 6/5/12 at 12:00pm

I went last night and it was AWFUL. I bolted at intermission. Its not funny- like a really bad SNL or MadTV sketch. The "jokes" fell flat and I felt embarrassed for the actors. The sex scene and the dinner scene at the end of act one were awkward. SKIP IT!

[BroadwayMan5]

MEDIEVAL PLAY#7

Posted: 6/5/12 at 12:54pm

I attended the third preview and i also left after the first act. I felt bad since i was sitting on the first row center, but this was awful.
The worst thing is that i felt that the actors knew the play is bad. At one point right after the "sex scene" of Act 1, when the 2 protagonist are alone on stage, Hamilton was laughing while saying his lines. Donovan told him "Stop laughing" a couple of times (while also laughing) and Hamilton replied "Nobody's paying attention anyway". Lol. That was the funniest moment of the show.

[Unknown User]

MEDIEVAL PLAY#8

Posted: 6/5/12 at 1:13pm

OMG! That is hysterical!