Post by Marwood on Mar 20, 2023 17:27:17 GMT
Saw this yesterday afternoon, managed to get a front row seat for less than a third of what one for A Doll’s House which I saw the previous night would have cost me.
it’s a drama about two couples, one Jewish in the first part of this century and the other with a Jewish writer and his half-Jewish wife in modern times, with Katie Holmes playing a movie star who gets involved. If that makes it sound serious and a laugh free zone, there was humour in this but especially with the first couple,but there’s a fair bit in Yiddish so that went above my head and beyond having seen some Woody Allen films and Curb Your Experience, I wasn’t au fait with some of the observations about Jewish married life and while I know who Philip Roth is, I couldn’t tell you about any of his work, but with these kind of themes, I can see why it was put on in this part of New York.
The actual play was ok, I liked the surprise twist at the end: Holmes isn’t actually in it that much but Eddie Kaye Thomas (from American Pie) as the lead doesn’t do it any favours in the properly dramatic moments. While it was written by Anna Zigler who also wrote Photograph 51, Holmes is nowhere near the star level of someone like Nicole Kidman so I’ll be surprised if this comes to the UK.
it’s a drama about two couples, one Jewish in the first part of this century and the other with a Jewish writer and his half-Jewish wife in modern times, with Katie Holmes playing a movie star who gets involved. If that makes it sound serious and a laugh free zone, there was humour in this but especially with the first couple,but there’s a fair bit in Yiddish so that went above my head and beyond having seen some Woody Allen films and Curb Your Experience, I wasn’t au fait with some of the observations about Jewish married life and while I know who Philip Roth is, I couldn’t tell you about any of his work, but with these kind of themes, I can see why it was put on in this part of New York.
The actual play was ok, I liked the surprise twist at the end: Holmes isn’t actually in it that much but Eddie Kaye Thomas (from American Pie) as the lead doesn’t do it any favours in the properly dramatic moments. While it was written by Anna Zigler who also wrote Photograph 51, Holmes is nowhere near the star level of someone like Nicole Kidman so I’ll be surprised if this comes to the UK.