| ENGLISH Last Night (Possible Spoiler) | |
| Posted by: sergius 09:03 am EST 01/12/25 | |
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| Language is a social act. I missed ENGLISH when it was first done a few years ago. And, of course, it has since won the Pulitzer. It’s an interesting play though it’s never as interesting as it seems it should be. There’s something schematic about it; it’s a slightly different picture in a familiar frame. The principal theme here—that while you can know several languages you always and only speak one—isn’t overfamiliar, but structurally the play is proverbial. Five strangers with different stories convene in a room and tell us and each other who they are and where they’ve been. And all have some secret sorrow. The actors here are splendid, and the production is elegant and spare. If the play is more admirable than entirely captivating, it’s nonetheless an appreciable depiction of lives that are—and aren’t—like our own. | |
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