A great play. The characters are so defined, the story is so power and it deserves best everything including score. The quantity of score is irrelevant. Not only quality is important, but its presence is crucial or the play doesn't make sense. It pulls of something terrific and almost impossible to achieve: creating a score that sounds like parts of a No. 1 album. Usually, the advice to a playwright is if you're writing about what is supposed to be a just-created great work of art, don't show it. If you do, audiences will get involved with the ifs and whethers and the nots
More powerful than two supposedly great plays. Willy Loman (a bad use of a restoration name, low man isn't funny) and Willy is a shmuck who buys into bullshit capitalism and conventionality and then cheats on his wife.
And then we have the case of Blanche D. The romance of Belle Rive, a falling down pile built by slaves and supported by slaves who teaches in a whites only school and fucks soldiers. Nothing wrong with fucking soldiers but everything else is. I've always depended on the kindness of strangers because I'm a southern belle. |
