SPOILER ALERTS
The play was at times difficult for me to read. I found that it
probably would have been clearer to see on stage. The pacing of sentences
begins picking up but it becomes a back and forth between two situations. There
are four characters having parallel arguments in pairs at times and it becomes
a task to make sure you are reading the right line for the right person.
I found the staging of this to be really interesting to think
about. I never would have thought of such unconventional things to happen on a
stage. I think that it affords a lot of opportunity for a director but at the
same time has its challenges. The first dream sequence made me think it would
be difficult. That idea of both a dream and a hallucination going on at the
same time to two different people comes across in dialogue, but could be
jarring for people to see on stage. I think the director is going to have to
meet the playwright somewhere in the middle to make sure that the audience can
understand what is going on.
Probably my favorite scene is with the three Priors. Something
about the implications and the idea of how to cast that scene really struck me
as excting.
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