Burn This

[Rod Hagen]

Any NY-ers see this latest incarnation yet? Is it better than the original production? I have great respect for Catherine Kenner (spelling?) but I fear she's allowing herself to become typecast as Frigid. Is her role different finally?

[bluenix]

>Any NY-ers see this latest incarnation yet? Is it better

>than the original production? I have great respect for

>Catherine Kenner (spelling?) but I fear she's allowing

>herself to become typecast as Frigid. Is her role different

>finally?

[bluenix]

>Any NY-ers see this latest incarnation yet? Is it better

>than the original production? I have great respect for

>Catherine Kenner (spelling?) but I fear she's allowing

>herself to become typecast as Frigid. Is her role different

>finally?

 

Oops. Sorry. Chalk up the nonce post to ambition = wanting to best the post rate of a certain temporarily absent Canadian. Would that I could best a thousand in under a year.

 

RH, always enjoy your posts. The angry ones especially.

 

But I'm curious.

 

For someone like yourself, who is, um, technically inclined, why would you make up the spelling of the actress's name when a quarter-second google tells the story.

 

I should suppose you'd pride yourself in accuracy of fact. Or have you concluded that the Philistines here aren't worth the bother.

[Rod Hagen]

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Keener,%20Catherine

 

i was one letter off.

[bluenix]

>i was one letter off.

 

Precisely my point. You're saying "one letter off" a person's name is an acceptable margin of error. I say no.

 

Everyone else move along. Nothing to see here.

 

b

[+ Lucky]

Anyway, Catherine's performance did not shine. She was barely audible most of the time. The entire cast was barely audible about 1/3d of the time.

[Guest DickHo]

I went last Wednesday. I had front row seats. You could hear everyone at this performance. It was great...they were all great. I didn't see John Malkovich but I can imagine his performance was a lot bigger than Edward Norton--who was excellent. It was a true foursome...not just a John M. vehicle.

 

That said, I thought it play was a little long at 3 hours.

[Guest bluboy]

I fell in love with Malcovich in his performance at Burn This. He did to the part what Brando did to Street Car- the definitive performance even though Langston Hughes hated that he overshadowed on stage. This production was on a scale of 1 to 10 about a 6.5 whereas the malcovich one was about a 9. Worth seeing mostly becuase of Hughes but the acting made it a little long whereas I did not feel that with the original. BUT there is NOTHING to see in NYC theatre this season. I am heading over to BAM to catch Medea in a couple weeks..what is a theatre-opera fag to do? The season has been really hum drum. blu

[Guest gryphone]

Have not yet seen this revival, but the NY Times reviewer, a generally

good one, raved over the new production, saying that John Malkovich's

intensity in the original overwhelmed the content of the play and the

other actors. I did seee that production and Malkovich was indeed

riveting, so think the reviewer has a point. Will comment again after

I've seen this new production.

[Rod Hagen]

Gryphone, I read that review which made me very curious. And I have a lot of admiration for Keener, the iceBitch. But 3 hours? I have the attention span of a Ferret on an Espresso IV, how am I going to sit still for 3 hours?

[+ Lucky]

Many people had a hard time sitting still! The seats in this theater creak when you move, so it was a little like being at a crickets convention!

[Guest gryphone]

>Gryphone, I read that review which made me very curious.

>And I have a lot of admiration for Keener, the iceBitch.

>But 3 hours? I have the attention span of a Ferret on an

>Espresso IV, how am I going to sit still for 3 hours?

Dear Rod,

When seeing a play for the second time with a new cast, or one of the classics (Chekhov,Ibsen,etc)I often find it helpful to read the

published version first; this makes it easier to concentrate on the

performances, especially the nuances (no nuances with Malkovich) which

of course are easy to miss. "Burn This" is in my public library here in suburban Phila. so it is probably available to you in an LA library or bookstore. As to sitting still and concentrating, Ritalin or Adderal an hour before the performance and maybe another at intermission might help. As to reviewers, you do have to be careful, escpecially since Frank Rich has moved on to reviewing George Bush

every Sunday, but Wilson and a few others are so generally good that

even their flops are worth seeing in order to see an interesting mind at work or an interesting actor or director for that matter. And even

IceBitches can be right about some subjects some time.