Largo Desolato

Rating:
Summary: Professor Nettles, I presume?
Review: This absurd play is both funny and tragic at the same time. Professor Leopold Nettles is about to be arrested for an article he wrote, and no one connected with him seems to be overly concerned. Instead, everyone he knows, and some absolute strangers, keep busy trying to make him into what they want. At one point he is given the opportunity to deny that he was the author of the article, which leads to some fascinating thoughts on the questions of identity, self-worth, and integrity. The play causes the reader to reflect on his or her beliefs about these things; it also serves as good insight into life under a communist regime.

Rating:
Summary: Professor Nettles, I presume?
Review: This absurd play is both funny and tragic at the same time. Professor Leopold Nettles is about to be arrested for an article he wrote, and no one connected with him seems to be overly concerned. Instead, everyone he knows, and some absolute strangers, keep busy trying to make him into what they want. At one point he is given the opportunity to deny that he was the author of the article, which leads to some fascinating thoughts on the questions of identity, self-worth, and integrity. The play causes the reader to reflect on his or her beliefs about these things; it also serves as good insight into life under a communist regime.