Interesting Possibility

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Interesting Possibility
Topic Started: Apr 20 2014, 02:53 AM (165 Views)
Trotsky	Apr 20 2014, 02:53 AM Post #1
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Today Bob is seeing SATCHMO, not my cup of tea. So I got a comp to see Tony Kushner's re-do of his play A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY down in the East Village. It deals with a goup of Leftists, artists, writers confronting Hilter's rise to power in German, circa 1930-1932. Then it juxtaposes an actress of the 1980's seeing too many resemblaces between Reagan and Hitler. So she escapes to Germany. Many critics lambasted the play, when it was first done in the late 1980's because it was considered too strident and overreaching mostly because of its attacks on Reagan. However, this sounds RIGHT up my political alley. I have also never seen anything by Kushner that I have not liked. Also, today's weather is beautiful. Quote: Tony Kushner's A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY...is unabashedly political, thought-provoking, a little scary, and frequently a good deal of theatrical fun. ...BRIGHT ROOM is...an examination of Nazi Germany in an attempt to shed insight on our own time. It's brash, audacious, and, depending on your politics, anything from infuriatingly naive to intoxicatingly visionary. In its 1932-33 span, it tells of a group of Berlin artists and friends, with varying degrees of communist leanings, and of the changes in their lives as democracy falls and Adolph Hitler takes over." Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune "It's fun to see a show this engaged. This passionate and ready to talk. Wild, uneven, pugnacious, ragged, committed, smart, dumb, satirical, and utterly serious. Always dramatically and intellectually forceful. And most important, always passionately committed. More than a diatribe against Reagan or a falling-into-the-Nazi-abyss history play, A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY is an assertion of the need for commitment." Anthony Adler, The Reader[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bright_Room_Called_Day Edited by Trotsky, Apr 20 2014, 02:59 AM.



Trotsky	Apr 20 2014, 09:44 AM Post #2
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	The play is strident x 10 and Kushner is adept at pointing out the similarities between Nazism and Capitalism and he equates Hitler with Reagan with Satan and apparently added a rewrite which now includes the Brothers Koch. The SATAN is one of the memorable screen portrayals of the last decade. The best line which I will make my new tag line: Remember, WEIMAR had a Constitution too. There were weaknesses: in a sizeable theater some actresses should be told that whispering your lines is NOT appropriate, especially without mikes. Save that crap for your role on AS THE WORLD TURNS. The play was shattering to watch as the hopes and dreams of the communist, gay, socialist men and women were ground into the fascist dirt almost in a single year...1932. Edited by Trotsky, Apr 20 2014, 09:46 AM.



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