My job fails to entertain me. It is the last week in July. Center of the summer. Quiet. Lazy.
I'm working on a grant. I should be done with it by now, but I am not.
Question for you: Is there a well-known play that you really, really don't like? That you think is either overrated, offensive or dull? For example: I don't like Ah, Wilderness! It blows.
A Moon for the Misbegotten. O'Neill, your dad was a drunk. I get it. Shut up.
ReplyDeleteI like Ah Wilderness.
ReplyDeleteBut I HATE The Cryptogram.
Almost anything by Odets, Williams, and Miller - and a good deal of O'Neill - including Ah, Wilderness! (but not Moon for the Misbegotten).
ReplyDeleteI understand why they were important and influential in their time, but they just drive me nuts now. Especially Odets.
I'm trying to think of at least one now that I can't imagine why anyone EVER liked it.
I'm with Ian: I just don't get Odets at all.
ReplyDeleteI hate, HATE, really hate TIS A PITY SHE'S A WHORE, which is basically one long let's torture the shit out of females because they're all dumb and evil and slutty.
ReplyDeleteI hate that show.
Anything from the English Restoration -- yuck!
ReplyDeleteHoly God, the Ancient Greek playwrights. Aeschylus, Euripedes, Sophocles--Utterly and homicidally without nuance. And don't get me started about Lysistrata. My uncle Kenny tells fewer dick jokes when he's drunk, and they're better.
ReplyDeleteEquus.
ReplyDeleteA paranoid sexually dysfunctional twit is freed of the delusions that led him to blinding six horses and we're supposed to think it's a tragedy.