Apr 24, 2020
Fire in Dreamland (2018)
By Rinne Groff
Directed by Marissa Wolf
Featuring: Rebecca Naomi Jones, Kyle Beltran, Enver Gjokaj
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Fire in Dreamland (2018)
By Rinne Groff
Directed by Marissa Wolf
Featuring: Rebecca Naomi Jones, Kyle Beltran, Enver Gjokaj
No More Tidy Plays
RUBY SUNRISE and BARBECUE are both plays that I saw at the PUBLIC. Both use the idea of television as a theatrical device. Both reveal TV cameras to explode open the world of the play and make a play that seemed to be about one thing about something else that’s much broader.
I liked both but critics pretty universally panned RUBY SUNRISE, which I actually loved more. I found it to be emotionally raw and structurally inventive. I cried at the reveal at the end of the first act. It was a revelation. I thought Oskar Eustis’s staging was genius. I couldn’t wait to see more plays by Rinne Groff. But I haven’t. I just looked Rinne Groff up and I couldn’t find very much about her. I don’t know if she’s teaching now but I can imagine how heartbreaking the reception to her play (and the libretto for her excellent collaboration with my late genius friend Michael Friedman Saved!, which will, I imagine, find its way back to the stage) must have been.
Rereading the critical response to these plays, I couldn’t help but notice how much her writing was criticized for being ambitious but untidy. Who cares if something is a bit messy if it’s also ambitious and exciting? Do they truly prefer the tidiness of, say, Other Desert Cities and the other plays that bore me to tears?
Robert O’Hara is also untidy, but he’s praised for being audacious. He is. It’s thrilling. See or read BOOTY CANDY if you have a chance. Have you noticed how infrequently women are praised for audacity? I would like to see that change.
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Did you know that failure, as a word, only began to apply to a person in the 19th Century? You could make a failure, but not be one.
Hear more from Mark Fisher & Elizabeth Streb in this clip from last Sunday's Public Forum Drama Club!