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Aug. 16th, 2008 04:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hoosierbitchThoughts about True Love by Charles Mee.
I like Mee, I enjoy his intros and his down-to-earthness. The way he addresses his stage directions and descriptions towards the reality of theatre--so-and-so can be in the band if the actor can play an instrument, this character played by the youngest-looking legal person, etc.
I find myself reading his play and wondering what other people thought of it. The barometer of their response. Are his monologues too long? To out-of-the-blue?
True Love is a play about love. About sexual experiences, fetishes, touching, sleeping, comfort, divorce, masturbation--about the deep part of ourselves. Our vulnerabilities. And in his intro Mee mentions that this play is practically plotless. We wait to see if she has sex with her step-son. And in the meantime, everyone talks. Not usually to each other (with the exception of the two mechanics who question each other) but almost randomly begin speaking.
I didn't at all understand the nonverbal sequences. The men drop themselves repeatedly on the floor and then begin breakdancing (a metaphor for their dissatisfaction in life? Desperately coming up with ways to circumvent it?), the chicken that Polly bring onstage, beats senseless, and later tosses into the backseat of the car where she'll have sex with her son.
There were great moments. Great revelations. And I expect everyone will identify with different parts. In that sense, it is a very honest play.
Perhaps it goes back to the Grace Paley quote about how you have a plot if you say 'and then.' Mee simply says 'then' without the connection to the prior activities.
I like Mee, I enjoy his intros and his down-to-earthness. The way he addresses his stage directions and descriptions towards the reality of theatre--so-and-so can be in the band if the actor can play an instrument, this character played by the youngest-looking legal person, etc.
I find myself reading his play and wondering what other people thought of it. The barometer of their response. Are his monologues too long? To out-of-the-blue?
True Love is a play about love. About sexual experiences, fetishes, touching, sleeping, comfort, divorce, masturbation--about the deep part of ourselves. Our vulnerabilities. And in his intro Mee mentions that this play is practically plotless. We wait to see if she has sex with her step-son. And in the meantime, everyone talks. Not usually to each other (with the exception of the two mechanics who question each other) but almost randomly begin speaking.
I didn't at all understand the nonverbal sequences. The men drop themselves repeatedly on the floor and then begin breakdancing (a metaphor for their dissatisfaction in life? Desperately coming up with ways to circumvent it?), the chicken that Polly bring onstage, beats senseless, and later tosses into the backseat of the car where she'll have sex with her son.
There were great moments. Great revelations. And I expect everyone will identify with different parts. In that sense, it is a very honest play.
Perhaps it goes back to the Grace Paley quote about how you have a plot if you say 'and then.' Mee simply says 'then' without the connection to the prior activities.