Superior Donuts

First off I wanted to say that I thought this was a very entertaining well written play. One thing I especially liked about this play is that it had so many layers. Between Franco Wicks critiquing/helping Arthur Przybyszewski adapt his store to the "New Era," business world, to Arthur's pursuit of Officer Bandy, all the way to Franco's gambling debt to Luther Flynn. I was amazed at how much conflict/resolution and content Tracy Letts was able to incorporate into this play and still didn't effect the flow of it. Having said that I thought there were positives and negatives to both seeing the play and reading the play. The positive of seeing the play was that the actors that performed it were very good and added to the vision aspect of the play. To elaborate, the actor who played Max Tarasov did a great portrayal of the Russian business owner which I think is better than just reading Max's character yourself on the playwrite. A negative aspect to seeing the play is if you miss a line or two because of the speed in which they say it or if you miss a minor detail you can't go back and see what you missed like you can while reading it. But the negative to reading the play and not seeing it is the idea that you are seeing the play the way the writer/director intended you to see it. Whether it be the emotions displayed or the tones/accents, when you are reading it yourself you don't always get to incorporate that into the reading process. Overall I thought this was a entertaining play with some very funny dialog in it. (Especially Max's character, he was my favorite.)