When will there be a Revival of THE NORMAL HEART?- Page 2

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 7/1/06 at 11:35pm

If you've nothing to be defensive about, don't be defensive.

Oops, too late.


Withrop Paroo
River City, Iowa

[C is for Company]

Posted: 7/1/06 at 11:45pm

Emcee don't bother wasting valuable discussion with someone who doesn't ever drop anything around here that isn't negative or detrimental to the sake of a discussion. It is also the same person who thinks that Broadway Bares is a disgrace despite the fact that, ya know, it raises money for AIDS research.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/1/06 at 11:50pm

Apparently. It's not worth the frustration when all one's got is repetitive, empty remarks.

I'm done. This is bullsh*t.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 7/2/06 at 2:17am

I guess I'm glad that people loved that production of The Normal Heart, but I'm really at a loss to understand why, apart from the inherent power of the play, which nonetheless I thought the production pretty thoroughly failed to realize.

Maybe I saw it at an off performance, but I've rarely seen any production in which the actors so consistently to be talking past one another, seemingly not even attempting to connect with one another, just ranting. Barely anything resembling a believable relationship or even a believable conversation. A total mess.

I like the play, but not that production.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/2/06 at 10:08am

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.

Updated On: 7/2/06 at 10:08 AM