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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 812.6
EAN num: 9781559362535
ISBN number: 1559362537
Label: Theatre Communications Group
Manufacturer: Theatre Communications Group
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Page Count: 112
Printing Date: August 01, 2005
Publishing house: Theatre Communications Group
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The acclaimed writer and performer Lisa Kron's newest work is all about her mom. It explores the dynamics of health, family and community with the story of her mother's extraordinary ability to heal a changing neighborhood, despite her inability to heal herself. In this solo show with other people in it, Kron asks the provocative question: Are we responsible for our own illness? But the answers she gets are much more complicated than she bargained for when the play spins dangerously out of control into riotously funny and unexpected territory.
Lisa Kron has received numerous honors, including several OBIE Awards, the Cal Arts/Alpert Award, the Bessie Award and the GLAAD Media Award. Ms. Kron lives in New York City and Los Angeles.
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A very avant-guarde appproach in which the main character is the playwright herself, Lisa Kron, invites delight in the midst of chaos and meaning. It seems to be about the relationship between a daughter and her mother and becomes the relationship between a mother and her daughter with a little support for both from their friends.
As things build on stage with a mix of characters (some playing triple roles) Kron's message becomes clear. We are alike yet we are separate. We are sick and we are well. There is no line between sick people and well people. It's about much more..really..it's about what it means to integrate and become something other than someone else.
I hope my daughters will read and maybe even see the play. I wish I had see it when my mother was still alive. Besides the profound conclusion..this play is very funny. Enjoy!
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Lisa Kron's WELL was one of the best plays I saw in 2004. Kron combines the autobiographical style of solo performance with the meta-theatricality of Pirandello and comes up with an original, entertaining, and truly moving play.
It's probably helpful to distinguish between Kron, the author of the play, and Lisa, the character in the play. In creating a play about her troubled relationship with her mother, Lisa self-servingly wants the audience to understand the situation from her point of view. But stories and characters take on lives of their own, and the play's humour and dramatic tension comes from Lisa's attempts to maintain control even as things increasingly spin out of control. And isn't that a little like life?
Kron takes Lisa to task, satirizing her own vain attempts to separate herself from her wonderful/awful mother. And this is why the play is so powerful: it acknowledges our deep-rooted need to individuate from our parents, but also our equally deep-rooted need for connection and approval. What at very first seems like a comic hatchet-job about someone's "mad mother" becomes a thoughtful exploration of how and why we create stories in order to understand ourselves and our world. WELL combines sentiment and insight, and it does so with real wit and theatrical bravado. It's a wonderful play.
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I stumbled upon the 1-star review below while searching for a copy of Well to use in a playwriting class. I wanted to show my students that it's possible to fracture theatrical forms and still be funny and smart and real and heartbreaking. I saw the final Broadway performance of Well (on Mother's Day, appropriately enough), and it was the best thing I'd seen on Broadway that year. Lisa Kron is a warm and generous performer, but the play is strong enough to stand without her. It's deeply personal and very funny, and it's must-see (or must-read) theatre for anyone who's ever struggled to come to terms with a difficult but loving parent or lived with the guilt and elation of breaking free, of being healthier and saner than the ones we left behind. A full, rich, complex, and constantly surprising play. If you can't see it, read it!
And in response to Shakespeare's final comment below (Shakespeare??)--"Ms. Kron has inadvertently created a challenge to anyone wanting to stage the most sophomoric production on mother-daughter relationships." This is a bad thing?
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Theatrical maladies
Well @ the Longacre theatre
A comedy/drama about the mother-daughter relationship is nothing new, but given the various dimensions and complexities of the subject, there could always be some undiscovered terrain waiting for a daring playwright to venture onto. Lisa Kron however not only fails to shed some fresh light on not-yet-seen perspectives or depths of this prime womanly connection, but she also becomes avaricious when it comes to sharing the particularities of her ties to her own mother.
Personally, I don't need anyone explaining what I am about to see in a play. No wonder that Ms. Kron coming on stage at the beginning of this single act drama and doing just that did not impress me. Nor did her sarcastic instructions do the trick when she advised her audience on how to interpret the play. It should be viewed as a theatrical experiment that deals exclusively with issues of illness and wellness - she says. Nothing more than that. Ironically this forewarning does turn out to be a valid cautionary measure as after having sat through the play most will feel the production indeed did not manage to exceed beyond delineating the physical state of two people. The periodic re-emergence of the stepping out- when Lisa turns into a commentator and starts talking to the audience - seemed highly inappropriate and pointless in Well. Ms. Kron's attraction to this form of theatre, which she fancies both as playwright and performer, will only remind adults of the kind of children's plays where the wolf shares his intentions with the audience to eat little blue riding hood's grandma prior to doing so.
In addition to not being able to overcome the usual sentimentalization and simplistic depiction of her chosen subject, Ms. Kron has inadvertently created a challenge to anyone wanting to stage the most sophomoric production on mother-daughter relationships.
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