So I thought that "When the Rain Stops Falling" was very good, and up there with Realism and August: Osage County as the best that the MTC has done this year - it took a while to get going, but the pay-off was worth it.
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(From an email to RE dashed off while at work last week:)
I thought the cast by and large were very good, and I thought the neat tying up was important to the structure of the play as a whole - it made sense of the repetition of ideas, etc, provided the structural justification for the jumping back and forth between different time periods and settings, and provided a relatively optimistic (or at least humanistic) ending in that it gave a resolution and a sense of progression from the failures of the past (ie, Gabriel the second being able to reach some kind of understanding with his own son, and in the process achieve a partial redemption of the human misery and loss of previous generations, including the abandonment of the first Gabriel by his father)...
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[part of an MTC subscription with Steph, Sunny & co]
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(From an email to RE dashed off while at work last week:)
I thought the cast by and large were very good, and I thought the neat tying up was important to the structure of the play as a whole - it made sense of the repetition of ideas, etc, provided the structural justification for the jumping back and forth between different time periods and settings, and provided a relatively optimistic (or at least humanistic) ending in that it gave a resolution and a sense of progression from the failures of the past (ie, Gabriel the second being able to reach some kind of understanding with his own son, and in the process achieve a partial redemption of the human misery and loss of previous generations, including the abandonment of the first Gabriel by his father)...
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[part of an MTC subscription with Steph, Sunny & co]
