First of all, I did not meet with SC this time. I attended a matinee as it takes five hours one way to get to Cincy from my house. I knew that SC probably wouldn’t have much time between shows and I was right. I also could not attend the many performances where the actors met with the audience afterward. My husband and I had agreed that a ten hour drive would not work for us, when we had to get up and go to work the next day.. Before you entered the theater, they had a wall of photos of the play and I so wanted to take a picture of it. Steve was in several close up shots. Unfortunately, cameras are not permitted in the building by loving fans.The house manager will confiscate the cameras and only return them at the end of the show.
I sat only four rows away from the stage. It is a very small, intimate setting and if I really had wanted to, I could have touched SC as the actors were all over the place..leaving and entering by so many doors.. The play itself was about a woman who was a cello player who only became famous after her death. The first half of the play deals with her struggles to become famous. SC played her husband. He has longer hair now and a full beard which darkened or grayed depending on the scenes. He was about 35 in the beginning of the play. The first half of the play showed how deeply in love this couple was and how encouraging and sympathetic of a husband he was. At one scene, he stopped right in front of my center section, kissed his wife and then laughed aloud and grabbed her and kissed her deeply. Need I say that I studied every nuance of his body and lips as they moved with the actresses’? My husband punched my leg as I let out a sigh!
The second part of the play dealt with how this music critic was bound and determined to discredit Victoria Wedlen and he didn’t care how. This was the first modern play that I have been to. They used cell phones and computers. One of Stephen’s lines was that he checked his email on a daily basis. I coughed quietly as I had emailed SC a week before to tell him I was coming and he never checked his email! Stephen was aged fifteen years in the second part of the play and wore clothes that my father would have. Of course, my husband pointed that out to me! Stephen did a wonderful job of being one of the leads and at other times being a supporting actor. The ending itself hinted that SC killed himself, because of the harsh criticism of his wife, but then he appeared on stage where it was explained that he clumsily only nicked his ear. That was funny…… the ending,however was flat and did little to explain why the protagonist spent his entire life discrediting Victoria and then when he succeeded ,he ended up wanting to get her earlier works published. The playwright needs to tweak the ending of it.
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