I don't know the show--should I put it on my reading list? The way to make a show happen at T@F is pretty much to convince someone to direct it. I think it's definitely a story that would resonate with our audience.
Alternately, we're about to announce a workshop program for new plays, so if you have time and interest in drafting a better take on the story (or anything else) by September 1st, that's also a possibility.
As for VSM&S, yes, seriously. I kept waiting for the script to expose itself in some way, but it stayed true to the end. As far as I could tell, the message was that old people (e.g. those over 50) should abandon any hope of having any kind of meaningful life. The way Sigourney Weaver was treated on that stage was embarrassing to watch--in her opening scene she is humped by her much younger lover, the script includes a stereotypical cat fight (the women scripted to hiss and claw at each other) and she is eventually abandoned by her lover because clearly the only reason a 28 year old man might want to fuck Sigourney Fucking Weaver is for what she might do for his acting career. And David Hyde Pierce's pathetic "why bother coming out at this point, it's not as though any man could ever love me" role was chilling, especially coming from Durang. Yes, I get that it's a riff on Chekov, but Chekov's characters had to embrace "life sucks and then you die" because they were 19th century Russians. Upstate New York trust fund babies have no excuse for that sort of bullshit. Watching the blue-haired audience eat it up with a spoon was nauseating and the idea that it was the Best Play of 2013 offends me on behalf of American Theatre. It was certainly the worst play I saw all year.
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Alternately, we're about to announce a workshop program for new plays, so if you have time and interest in drafting a better take on the story (or anything else) by September 1st, that's also a possibility.
As for VSM&S, yes, seriously. I kept waiting for the script to expose itself in some way, but it stayed true to the end. As far as I could tell, the message was that old people (e.g. those over 50) should abandon any hope of having any kind of meaningful life. The way Sigourney Weaver was treated on that stage was embarrassing to watch--in her opening scene she is humped by her much younger lover, the script includes a stereotypical cat fight (the women scripted to hiss and claw at each other) and she is eventually abandoned by her lover because clearly the only reason a 28 year old man might want to fuck Sigourney Fucking Weaver is for what she might do for his acting career. And David Hyde Pierce's pathetic "why bother coming out at this point, it's not as though any man could ever love me" role was chilling, especially coming from Durang. Yes, I get that it's a riff on Chekov, but Chekov's characters had to embrace "life sucks and then you die" because they were 19th century Russians. Upstate New York trust fund babies have no excuse for that sort of bullshit. Watching the blue-haired audience eat it up with a spoon was nauseating and the idea that it was the Best Play of 2013 offends me on behalf of American Theatre. It was certainly the worst play I saw all year.