Talley's Folly

[firstfrost]

After seeing the Lyric's Talley's Folly (we lost chenoameg!) I find that most of what I'm thinking about is differences/similarites to the dpolicar/chanaleh version. All the things I think about the play are still true - I still find Matt more sympathetic than Sally, the writing good, and so on. I found the Lyric Matt very like Dave's Matt, but the Lyric Sally much more different (both harder and more frightened, which meant I could maybe understand her a little more (though I guess having seen it once before helps with that), but like her a little less.). I wonder if this is because Matt's character (for me) is so tied up in the accents and voices?

The only thing that I really didn't like was the music during the Sally-confesses confrontration. My first instinctive reaction was "oh for God's sake, is that someone's cell phone?" Then I realized it was music from the bandstand (there's a line about it), but even so, it made my entire emotional reaction to that scene one of annoyance at the noisemusic as opposed to a reaction to anything going on on stage.

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[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

we lost chenoameg!)

I fell victim to no good deed going unpunished. While I was out yesterday afternoon a family locked out of their car borrowed my cell phone to call AAA, but the call took 20 minutes. I wasn't willing to punt any of my plans for the day, so I left my house for the T at 6:40pm, just missed a train in Davis, and was still waiting for a train at Downtown crossing at 7:35pm, so I gave up and went home.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Not so much help now, but for future runnings-late, I think taking the Green line to Copley ends up faster than the orange line to Back Bay, just because there are so many more green trains. (It's farther outside for cold/rainy days, though)

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Good point, I never think about how close the theater is to Copley, although I've walked much of that area before.