Post by joem on Jun 15, 2019 18:53:26 GMT
Inoffensive but unremarkable slice-of-life Italian-American mini family saga set in the sixties. Aspires to be A View From the Bridge but ends up falling well short of this. Well produced, quite well acted (bar the odd over-enthusiastic Brooklyn accent) but when wondering what the play was for, rather than what it was about, I didn't really have a convincing answer. Life was tough? Yes. Some fathers are monsters? Yes. etc etc.
Contains some lines of the annoying type I abhor where characters in the past are made to say things just so that we in (their) future can smile knowingly and laugh at the theatre. An idiot on a Tuesday isn't less of an idiot than an idiot on a Monday. The only advantage he has is knowing what happened the day before.
The statue of Mary on stage in front of me left my seat as virgin on a restricted view.
Contains some lines of the annoying type I abhor where characters in the past are made to say things just so that we in (their) future can smile knowingly and laugh at the theatre. An idiot on a Tuesday isn't less of an idiot than an idiot on a Monday. The only advantage he has is knowing what happened the day before.
The statue of Mary on stage in front of me left my seat as virgin on a restricted view.
