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| PAPA WOLF DADA HOT Last Night | |
| Posted by: | sergius 08:27 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| Several interesting questions are raised but they aren't developed and they're unconvincingly dramatized. The play is well meaning, but its depiction of the impact marriage equality and, more precisely, the adoption of more heteronormative cultural expectations and traditions have had on gay men's sexuality and its expressions is narrow and slight. Parnell recognizes the movement from gay liberation to epidemic loss to the ostensible embrace of more conventional, less marginalized behaviors, but he's not that incisive about it. There's nothing approaching an analysis of these shifts, which is fine of course, but the play isn't very interesting. There's something banal about it. It's neither funny enough nor trenchant enough. It's a boiler plate story about marital infidelity and the challenges of raising children except that now the protagonists are gay men. Ho-hum. | |
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| Posted by: | Circlevet 01:40 am EST 12/20/15 |
| In reply to: | PAPA WOLF DADA HOT Last Night - sergius 08:27 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| A play of cliches,many of them offensive (I say as a gay man),and horribly directed. Only John Pankow found any honesty in his performance. Everyone else was directed to regurgitate their lines as fast as possible with absolutely no attempt to appear to have an actual conversation. I also saw this last night and found it a failure of epic proportions. It's not a well written play but Ellis' astoundingly inept direction destroys any possibility of it having any impact whatsoever. Any director who allows the usually stellar John Benjamin Hickey give a bad performance should hang his head in shame. | |
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| Posted by: | vegas 09:31 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| In reply to: | PAPA WOLF DADA HOT Last Night - sergius 08:27 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| Agreed. I felt like I was just hanging out with friends of mine discussing their child/marriage issues. Not exactly high drama, and certainly not worth paying for when you can experience it for free with real people just about any day of the week. | |
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| Posted by: | broadwaybacker 08:58 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| In reply to: | PAPA WOLF DADA HOT Last Night - sergius 08:27 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| Just for the sake of accuracy. | |
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| Posted by: | sergius 09:00 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| In reply to: | re: PAPA WOOF DADA HOT Last Night - broadwaybacker 08:58 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| Yikes! You're right of course. It's DADA WOLF PAPA HOT (damn that title!). | |
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| Posted by: | sergius 09:01 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| In reply to: | re: PAPA WOOF DADA HOT Last Night - sergius 09:00 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| Yikes again. Actually, and for the record, it's DADA WOOF PAPA HOT. Isn't it? | |
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| Posted by: | broadwaybacker 09:09 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| In reply to: | re: PAPA WOOF DADA HOT Last Night - sergius 09:01 pm EST 12/19/15 |
| Yep. 😜 | |
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