Boy, it was a long, excruciating play to sit through.
Eugene O'Neill's play is 70 or so years old, but as current as any reality TV show (disclaimer: I don't watch them). It a hard job to play , and despite it being very well done by the Soulpepper theatre crew, sitting through it, specially the first long act(1 hour and 20 minutes) is daunting.
At times I found myself hating the characters, afflicted with alcoholism and drug addiction and extreme selfishness, and wanting them to end their miserable life so we can get on with ours. I suspect that the real people, those who's lives this play depicts, wanted the very same thing for the most part of their life. It is an autobiographical play based on the author's own family life.
It must be tough being those people for the run of this show, night after night. I hope they pay the actors well.
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For the love of God, do not see "A Moon for the Misbegotten!"
Oh, there is no danger of that, unless someone gives me a ticket, as was the case here. I don't regret seeing it, it provides a lot of food for thought
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