Light by Torgny Lindgren
My rating: 3/5 cats
i don’t know if i am sophisticated enough to understand this play. i hope the novel upon which it is based it more…straightforward, because i just bought that from alibris. first first: i have no patience for experimental theater. i knew some experimental theater kids when i went to nyu, and that tisch school, man…nyu wasn’t a cheap school when i went there, probably even less cheap now, and it always perplexed me that people would just send their kids out with 35,000 dollars pocket money to roll around on the ground in sweatpants pretending they were chipmunks or whatever. at least i learned something useful in real-world application, like etymology (koff). here are some stage directions that i thought were indicators of a fun and wacky play: “Onde is carrying a rabbit which he kills and puts on his head,” “a puppet rapes another puppet as Avar and Adla stare out in horror,” “Borne is having sex with a cow. He is standing on a stool.” and yet despite all that…pretty dull stuff. that’s not fair; it’s not dull, just…pointless? unrewarding? yes, we will say unrewarding…
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