Near the end of the rather excellent "Love Song", one of the characters declares "death to literalism!"; I wondered whether that line mightn't have been the genesis for the whole play. "Love Song" is about love and imagination, and how the two can (perhaps always must) meet, and it's pretty much perfect on its own terms.
Four main characters: Beane, one of society's misfits, living in his apartment under the barest of conditions, has his life illuminated one day by a spunky burglar with whom he falls in love; his career-minded sister and her husband find their lives also affected by this unexpected turn of events. All of the actors were pitch-perfect (Julia Zemiro particularly stole all of her scenes as the sister), the sets were unobtrusively integrated into the play text, and all told it was just one of those in which all of the elements came together - the play itself perfectly balanced between sweetness and edge, the production bringing out that delicate interaction and the interesting contrasts it entails to a treat. It's a minor thing, but the emotional palette from which it paints is nuanced and pleasing, and I liked the play a lot.
[part of an MTC subscription with Steph, Sunny & co]
Four main characters: Beane, one of society's misfits, living in his apartment under the barest of conditions, has his life illuminated one day by a spunky burglar with whom he falls in love; his career-minded sister and her husband find their lives also affected by this unexpected turn of events. All of the actors were pitch-perfect (Julia Zemiro particularly stole all of her scenes as the sister), the sets were unobtrusively integrated into the play text, and all told it was just one of those in which all of the elements came together - the play itself perfectly balanced between sweetness and edge, the production bringing out that delicate interaction and the interesting contrasts it entails to a treat. It's a minor thing, but the emotional palette from which it paints is nuanced and pleasing, and I liked the play a lot.
[part of an MTC subscription with Steph, Sunny & co]
