BITTER WHEAT - FARCE OR UNNECESSARY?
Holly Williams writes in Time Out London ‘REALLY, WHAT IS the point? Why stage this? She has a point or two!
We wanted to watch John Malkovich and to see what David Mamet has produced. And that sold us the seats. It was intense and absorbing and even tedious. It depends why the need or desire to see it.
Sitting during the longish ‘first half’ I wondered what a female writer would have been able to create and what slant she would have had. I suppose I will never know because if Holly Williams advice is taken no one would bother writing on this subject anyway. I can only surmise it would have been different and the female boot would surely have been put into a sensitive area of Barney Fein’s groin.
Her other comments suggest the play was ‘to bait all the right-on liberals’. She says ‘It's tiresome’ and ‘theatrically, its loopy’. All good points and that is where ‘farce’ comes into it!
I cannot see the need for this ‘take’ on a sensitive subject should be portrayed as this does. The sad part is that we are asked to see Barney as the victim. Maybe all aggressive predators with power, influence and money should be viewed with sympathy. I don't see it that way, but surely there is a female writer somewhere out there can deal with this subject in the theatrical sense.
Will we? Or will they not bother?
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