Relatively Speaking, three one act plays by Ethan Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen is pleasnt evening of theater.
Ethan Coen, of the Hollywood Coen brother who have made fifteen movies, goes first with the slightest piece, a set of two two character scenes, one between a prisoner with anger issues and his therepist, the second with his parents before he was born--or how he got that way. Nice acting, crisp drama, but the slightest of the three.
The second by Elaine May had divided results in our house. I thought it the best of the lot--my husband hated it. It involves a pathologically self-involved woman, the daughter of her nanny, the daughter's awful husband, and the nanny. Marlo Thomas was marvelous as the selfish Doreen. The others were also excellant, and the scenes has wit and flow. More to the point--these people were memorable.
The last piece by Woody Allen did not work at all for me, but the friend in the next seat howled with laughter, and my husband liked it best. Woody Allen went to the trunk and pulled out every joke he could find and stuffed into a Honeymoon Hotel (actually a motel) in which a father runs off with his son's bride--that is something of a spoiler, and I apologize, sort of. It is well-built into the scene. But for me, nothing was there and entire characters could have been profitably removed.
Recommended bit not strongly.
Ethan Coen, of the Hollywood Coen brother who have made fifteen movies, goes first with the slightest piece, a set of two two character scenes, one between a prisoner with anger issues and his therepist, the second with his parents before he was born--or how he got that way. Nice acting, crisp drama, but the slightest of the three.
The second by Elaine May had divided results in our house. I thought it the best of the lot--my husband hated it. It involves a pathologically self-involved woman, the daughter of her nanny, the daughter's awful husband, and the nanny. Marlo Thomas was marvelous as the selfish Doreen. The others were also excellant, and the scenes has wit and flow. More to the point--these people were memorable.
The last piece by Woody Allen did not work at all for me, but the friend in the next seat howled with laughter, and my husband liked it best. Woody Allen went to the trunk and pulled out every joke he could find and stuffed into a Honeymoon Hotel (actually a motel) in which a father runs off with his son's bride--that is something of a spoiler, and I apologize, sort of. It is well-built into the scene. But for me, nothing was there and entire characters could have been profitably removed.
Recommended bit not strongly.
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