6 Responses to “Nickel and Dimed, opening this Friday!”

1. posted by brenda p at May 14, 2008 5:07 pm :
   

   Note, the play will run through June 7, per the Friday/Saturday/Sunday times noted above.

2. posted by Chuck at May 14, 2008 9:16 pm :
   

   You posing for theatre posters again?? Looks ALOT like ya.

3. posted by Kristy at May 14, 2008 9:19 pm :
   

   We had the preview at my store Friday night, and I was surprised to see the story treated almost as a comedy. It wasn’t what I expected, having read the book, but it worked. Should be a great show.

4. posted by brenda p at May 22, 2008 8:49 am :
   

   Huh? I’m not sure what to make of the review in the P-I.

   1) What of: “Very little, if any, humor was injected into the play, for comic relief was not needed.”

   ???

   The subject matter of the play deals with things not funny. The delivery, however, had me laughing and snorting my ’sticky buns’ off.

   2) What of: ‘jettisoned her body out into the middle and upper class audience and shouted, ‘What would you pay your cleaning lady?…’ This seemed to cast a guilt feeling among the audience when confronted by such accusing questions.’

   ???

   First, about the composition of the audience, I’m not even going there.

   Second, the audience is not being bashed over the head with guilt. They are also let off the hook by the script. The net result, is the audience has an opportunity to ask themselves questions and find their own answers.

   The bottom line: this is an enjoyable, comic play that at the same time is thought provoking. I did not find it to be the confrontational experience described in the review.

5. posted by tg4360 at May 22, 2008 9:07 am :
   

   A review of the PI’s “review.”

   First rant… A review in the “Editorial” section (at least on the web site)?

   Further….

   One would hope that a professional journalist doing a theatrical review would have at least a passing acquaintance with theater technique in general.

   That the reviewer states, “…with her lone, almost confidential statements to the audience…” shows they don’t understand that a stage whisper or an aside is not supposed to be “heard” by the other players. It is confidential between that player and the audience.

   Then the reviewer says, “Barbara often talked to a shadow behind a screen, like it was her inner voice. The audience could not view the person’s visage, but the shadow spoke like a professional consultant,” totally missing the fact that the person behind the screen was Barbara’s husband/boyfriend and we were being made privy to the other end of her phone conversations.

   I’ll go there about the audience composition. How the hell can the reviewer know what the “class” of the audience members really is? Isn’t the reviewer showing his own “class bias” by assuming that ONLY middle and upper class people would attend the theater?

   “Very little if any humor…” He’s kidding right? the whole play used humor to address a serious subject. That the Directress was able to make some very compelling points without being preachy by using humor is one of the hallmarks of the work.

   There’s more but it hurts my head to even continue reading it.

6. posted by shawn at May 22, 2008 9:21 am :
   

   “I’ll go there about the audience composition. How the hell can the reviewer know what the “class” of the audience members really is? Isn’t the reviewer showing his own “class bias” by assuming that ONLY middle and upper class people would attend the theater? ”

   This isn’t east-germany. Where I am from, the lower classes were either indifferent or hostile to theatre, even if it was Bertolt Brecht.

   Maybe where you are from, things are different.

   I think the reviewer was either trying to project his own guilt on the audience, or was trying to be sophisticated by “involving” the audience in his review.

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