Desire Under The Elms.
Well I was glad school took us to see it for free... I would have been really sad to loose my money if I had pay for the ticket.
And this is a show where I'm very puzzled.
Most reviews have been pretty good, but worth of mouth speaks otherwise, including mine.
Some people say is the playwright they don't like, they say Eugene O'Neill is dated, and that it is the show the one that gets boring, but they liked the actors.
I'm of the other side of the public opinion, I don't have a problem with Mister O'Neill's work, actually I think the story is rather interesting, of society in a different time that although we are rather much liberated nowadays we can still seem traces of past cultures and behaviors in our modern civilization such as greed, pride, chauvinism and intolerance, which are still issues in the modern world and I found rather interesting to see how they play with them in this new production.
Here, as in Guys and Dolls I blame the director... those southern accents are so badly done, and although people try to defend him saying that's how they are also written in the original script, can somebody tell me how I'm able to understand them in the script and here I just snoozed for the first half hour of the show, since I didn't understand a single word they where saying, which by the way is 90 minutes long with NO intermission, god help you if you go see it... you won't feel guilty of taking your own pee break in the middle of the show... air is very much needed.
And even if it has really good moments, specially those steamy parts where Carla Gugino and Pablo Schreiber interact together or where Brian Dennehy speaks his mind. Still you'll snooze 30 minutes of the show (I looked around... most of us did), Be deeply into it for another 30 minutes and then look at your watch for the other 30 left in the show.
Wondering in the end what in hell just happened and thinking that next time you want to see a straight none comedic show you'll choose Mary Stuart or August: Osage County... that's a really good show... And just leave O'Neill resting peacefully in his grave . Where with this production it seems like the right place where the father of american contemporary theatre should be.
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