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Summary: Worst play of all time (Seriously)
Review: I had the misfortune of seeing this, the worst of all plays this summer at the Old Globe in San Diego. A talented cast tried to perform and make sense of the fractured farce. Fantastically staged by a highly talented and capable set design team, the execution of the play was hampered by the pretentiousness of the written word. The audience found itself thinking, and then gave up. The reason this perverse bombardment of the senses was all the more damaging to the psyche was that you could see there were talented people behind the actual production; it was just the worst script of all time getting in the way. It was the ONLY play to lose money for the Old Globe this summer.Intellectually stunted, Pentecost was seemingly written by a 16 year old raging at the world, the author a frustrated bore wishing the world to bear witness to this over-indulgent tantrum. Teeny boppers who wish to show off how much they know write in such a style, packing facts into their essays without any breadth of knowledge or understanding. What you have here is a one sided and bizarre assault on the western world, penned by a completely misguided and over-rated British playwright with more than a few screws loose. The farcical Mr. Edgar is infamous for having his acting students perform bizarre stunts, one went the bathroom on stage, amongst other stunts. In this play there is gratitious anal sex, and other unsubtle techniques hacks and the terminally attention starved use in lieu of actual writing talent. The only thoughts provoked during this overwrought, seminally pathetic, unsettling, and misguided folly are "Why did I pay to see this garbage," and "where's the exit to this theater?" If you ever have the urge to see a play by a self-loathing, arrogant, pseudo-intellectual with a penchant for sado-masochism and infantile rantings on the western world by a clearly deranged sociopath, this "play" will be right up your alley, jack!
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Summary: Great in class discussions.
Review: I have used this play in several undergraduate classes in European Politics. One of its many virtues is that it starts a lot of conversations with students who by their own admission know very little about eastern europe. And yet whenever I have students from eastern europe in the class, they always find many parts of the play deeply authentic. It's getting a bit dated by now (2003), but I still think it's a terrific starting point for discussions about borders, ethnicity, and commerce in contemporary europe.
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Summary: Colorful and bound breaking
Review: This play reads into the structure of language barriers and breaks into the strife between the eastern and western hemispheres. Though the bracketed english is a bit confusing at times, the play itself is easy to get involved in. It is based around the mystery of who painted a mystery fresco inside of a small church. As the mystery unfolds, so do the characters. The plot keeps the reader inthraled and wondering who will be the greedy one. I recommend this book to all theater majors because of its use of structure and role reversals. It really lends a hand to those looking for a piece about the barriers and definitions between cultures.
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