Well, the '04 production was my first exposure to the play, and... I don't remember finding much wrong with it, but I've admittedly developed my critical eye quite a bit since then. However, I do think that if the production was indeed terribly flawed (direction, maybe?), the sheer innate power of the play transcended that -- the power of the play was stronger than the negativities in the flaws -- and still let me fall in love with it. There's something to be said for having an experience and afterward knowing that you have never seen anything like that before, even if it's imperfect. The truth was, that looking at that play, I don't look at the flaws I might have seen or my thorough evaluations of the production; I look back on what its emotional implications were, because that's what I came away with -- and they were huge.
A work of art is an invitation to love.
Updated On: 7/2/06 at 10:08 AM
