| re: Oscar Eustis' Long Goodbye | |
| Posted by: ryhog 08:18 pm EDT 07/31/24 | |
| In reply to: Oscar Eustis' Long Goodbye - StageLover 03:45 pm EDT 07/31/24 | |
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| I think he has done a great but (no surprise for a massive institution) less than perfect job. It is inconceivable to me that anyone who has been around since (at least) the last years of Joe Papp doesn't see what the advent of Oskar (and I use that word guardedly :-) ) did for the Public Theatre. In the years before (during the tenure of the great-but-for-other-reasons George Wolfe) the Public could be painfully sad. Oskar changed that physically and otherwise. All of a sudden, there were lots of people there making lots of theatre in the abundance of spaces. That said, Oskar can be insufferable, a theatrical blowhard prone to self-aggrandizement. [There is a famous bit of free advice in Hamilton that I am sorry Oskar did not take to heart; I refer of course to "Talk less, smile more."] I think we have to separate the good from the bad, but to me if the latter is the price, I say the result is worth it. As always, others will differ, for any number of reasons. As someone who has been going to the park since I needed a booster seat, there have always been duds. But it is also wrong, IMO, to generalize the covid era. Merry Wives was terrific and I give any theatre that had the fortitude to get substantial work up considering what we were going through over the last 4 years. |
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