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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 812.54
EAN num: 9780822218982
ISBN number: 0822218984
Label: Dramatist's Play Service
Manufacturer: Dramatist's Play Service
Printing Date: 2003-03
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The play is demanding of its director and cast and should not be attempted by amateurs unless they have solid resources. It's for the pros,or at least for University level companies who are not professional.
Textually difficult for just reading.. it requires its three actors to play a range of roles. Skill and training are as essential as talent. The production is deceptively simple to describe, but without a creative and experienced director to steer its course, an audience would be left confused and unsatisfied. Having said that, it is almost irresistible.. a contemporary examination of Americans in early adulthood, their sense of need, their loss, their betrayals, their unfinished business, and what they do about these things.
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If this play is any indication of the direction drama is going in the U.S., then hurray for us. I recently saw it performed and was most impressed, so I purchased a copy to see if it held up to careful reading. It does. It is a tight, well-written, never-saccherine drama (in spite of its subject matter) built around themes that have been around forever. But, especially through the narrator, Wright still finds new things to say to us about past and future, nostalgia and reality, and relationship . The play is both edgy and lyrical and creates some of those moments of wonder that good plays must have.
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I recently read this edition, and it is every bit as amazing as the script I have read multiple times and and my memory of seeing this play in performance. It contains some of the most beautiful prose and perhaps the most imaginitive use of a narrator I have ever encountered. Nothing short of genius.
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Full disclosure: I haven't read this edition of 'The Pavilion.' However, I have worked on a production of the play, and think it's a wonderful piece. It's elegantly written, with two great main characters and dozens of secondary characters (all of the secondary characters are played by one narrator, making this a three-actor play). It's alternately hilarious and heart-wrenching, and since the pavilion itself (the play takes place in a pavilion on a large lake) is a metaphor for the universe, Wright shows us how the smallest decision can affect an entire universe (and vice versa). Wright is a terrific writer, and this is a great play.
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