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Art, Life, and the Meaning of It All Up For Discussion – and Combat – in H2O at CATF

Posted on July 16, 2013, 6:28 am, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theater Reviews and Commentary.

H2O will leave you dealing not only with your feelings about the characters, but also reconsidering art, life, and The Meaning of It All.

Tags: Alex Podulke, CATF, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Culture War, Evalngelical Christians, faith, H2O, Hamlet, Jane Martin, John Ambrosone, Jon Jory, Ophelia, rationality, Shepher University, William Shakespeare
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Well-Made Dramas

Posted on October 31, 2012, 8:42 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theater Reviews and Commentary.

To the audiences thronging recent New York productions of The Common Pursuit and Clybourne Park, any effort by the playwrights to make a “just distribution of good and evil” would surely have seemed both unpalatable and dishonest. And the revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man [sic] shows the dangers of labeling choices and characters too confidently.

Tags: 1959, 1972, 1984, 2009, A Dance to the Music of Time, Adlai Stevenson, Advise and Consent, An Unnatural Pursuit, Annie Parisse, Antero Pietila, Anthony Powell, anti-Communist, anti-Semitism, Arts Council, Bertrand Russell, big tent political parties, blockbusting, Bloomsbury, Brendan Griffin, Bruce Norris, Cambridge University, Candice Bergen, Chaucer's Retraction, Chris Noth, Christina Kirk, Clint Robertson, Clybourne Park, Crystal A. Dickinson, D.H. Lawrence, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Eric McCormack, F.R. Leavis, Frank Wood, Frederic Raphael, Geoffrey Chaucer, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Gore Vidal's The Best Man, Hamlet, Hammersmith, Harold Pinter, Henry Fonda, homosexual, Jacob Fishel, James Earl Jones, Jane Eyre, Jeremy Shamos, John Larroquette, Josh Cooke, Kerry Butler, Kieran Campion, Kingsley Amis, Korean War, Kristen Bush, Ku Klux Klan, Leavisites, Lee Atwater, Lorraine Hansberry, Lucase Near-Vergrugghe, Margaret Leighton, Melvyn Douglas, Moises Kaufman, N.A.A.C.P., National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Not In My Neighborhood, O. Henry, plot, plotlessness, Prairie Home Companion, PTSD, Raisin in the Sun, redlining, restrictive covenants, Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Scrutiny, Simon Gray, smears, Southern accent, Spalding Grey, Steppenwolf, T.S. Eliot, The Canterbury Tales, The Common Pursuit, the common pursuit of true judgment, The Glittering Prizes, The Merchant of Venice, Thomas Eagleton, Tim McGeever, Walter Kerr Theatre, warhorses, well-made dramas, Wide Sargasso Sea, William Shakespeare, willing buyer, willing seller, Woolly Mammoth
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