Wrapping Up My Season in Canada
More shows in Canada!
A combined review of two musical productions, Camelot, at Stratford, and My Fair Lady, at Shaw
And a third musical, the glorious Stratford production of Twelfth Night
Two very serious dramas: The Merry Wives of Windsor and The President
And the family-friendly comic romp known as Titus Andronicus
A moving Grapes of Wrath
And it’s about time for a decent Canadian play like The Little Years
I believe that wraps up Canadian theatre for me. Stratford also has a production of the one-woman show, Shakespeare’s Will, starring the incomparable Seana McKenna, but it’s a remount of a production they did a few years ago, and I wrote it up then.
But I’ve already seen a couple of shows in Chicago, and more to come in New York. So do keep visiting Millman’s Shakesblog!
And don’t forget your recent theatre-studded visit to Chicago. Inquiring minds want to know about that also.
— Alan Jacobs · Sep 21, 03:54 PM · #
Quick preview for the inquiring minds:
- Clybourne Park is very engaging, but I’m left wondering whether it means very much, mostly because I think the second act is a disappointment after the first – it stays a little too much on the surface, talking about how we talk rather than digging under to how we really feel.
- Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses is an amazing piece of theatre, but there are a couple of structural choices that I puzzled over, and some smaller kinks that need to be worked out. I would encourage everyone to see it, but I also hope Graney has the opportunity to work on it more and remount.
— Noah Millman · Sep 21, 09:43 PM · #
I don’t think Shaw made a mistake in refusing to write a conventional romantic comedy. He knew his audience wanted Eliza to end up with Higgins, and he liked her too much to allow it. He also thought Eliza would be smart enough to confine herself to the occasional fantasy about Higgins and turn Freddie into a productive citizen. Hollywood and Broadway look like they made the wrong choice, not Shaw.
Sounds like the production was painful.
— Pithlord · Sep 22, 04:35 PM · #