Pulizer Prize for Drama - 2011- Page 3
Pulizer Prize for Drama - 2011
#50Pulizer Prize for Drama - 2011
Posted: 11/7/11 at 3:14pm
"There are many who find the show's treatment of a delicate subject distasteful and possibly dangerous."
Dangerous?? lol.
When my goodbye post was removed: “but I had a great dramatic finish!!!!”
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#51Pulizer Prize for Drama - 2011
Posted: 11/7/11 at 3:18pmAnyone realize how irrelevant all this will be in another thousand years?
BroadwayEd
#52Pulizer Prize for Drama - 2011
Posted: 11/7/11 at 3:19pm
Yes, dear. Dangerous. I've had many conversations with people--many of whom have suffered from mental illness and bipolarity--who've compared the show's anti-drug message to the church of scientology. My late friend, theatre critic Patrick Lee, wrote a thoughtful piece about it on his blog:
http://showshowdown.blogspot.com/2008/02/next-to-normal.html
"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
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#53Pulizer Prize for Drama - 2011
Posted: 11/7/11 at 3:37pm
I am far from a Scientologist. But I have suffered from depression (and taken medicine for it) for quite some time. I find that more "conscious" decisions to better my life work for me than just popping a pill.
Being on medication was zombie-fying for me. I related a lot with that. I think a lot of people do and a lot of people don't. Medicine works for some but doesn't for others.
But I think to imply that there is some kind of anti-drug message to it is a little silly... I understand her plight because I would've rather been sad than nothing.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#54Pulizer Prize for Drama - 2011
Posted: 11/7/11 at 3:42pmThe show does not suggest that we should "throw away those pills and ditch that psychiatrist". I think this is clear in "Light" when Dan agrees to see a someone and it is implied Diana is still seeing a psychiatrist. The show is critical about psychiatry but in a way that is meant to make you think about the issues not in a way that is meant to inspire you not to take medication..
When my goodbye post was removed: “but I had a great dramatic finish!!!!”
#55Pulizer Prize for Drama - 2011
Posted: 11/7/11 at 3:50pm
Yes, dear. Dangerous. I've had many conversations with people--many of whom have suffered from mental illness and bipolarity--who've compared the show's anti-drug message to the church of scientology.
No, dear. Not dangerous. It's a musical. Anyone who would take medical advice from a musical has a whole litany of other problems that need addressing.
And not to rehash this argument yet again, but the musical makes abundantly clear the decision is made by Diana and Diana alone. It never advocates for her decision, and even presents it as rife with risk.
#56Pulizer Prize for Drama - 2011
Posted: 11/7/11 at 3:54pm
TheaterTrash--I, too, have suffered from depression, been on medication, and found myself uncomfortable with the show's underlying message. But that's a discussion for another thread (and one I've already had several times).
Adamgreer, do you really think theatre exists in a vacuum? Do you really think people can't be influenced, positive or negative, by art?
"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
Updated On: 11/7/11 at 03:54 PM
#57Pulizer Prize for Drama - 2011
Posted: 11/7/11 at 6:27pmI do love when people call each other "dear" on here! :)
#58Pulizer Prize for Drama - 2011
Posted: 11/7/11 at 8:37pm
So do I, dear.
Whether or not the delusional Alice Ripley fans ran home and flushed their Zoloft because of Next to Normal, it still didn't deserve the Pulitzer.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
Videos