Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA)
Bill Pullman (Independence Day, While You Were Sleeping, Broadway's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?) and Julia Stiles (The Bourne Identity series) star in David Mamet's gripping drama of a power struggle between a university professor and one of his students. Stiles reprises her role, after performing to rave reviews on London's West End.
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...the actors were meticulous in their roles...the story brilliant, thought-provoking and disturbing however,I and my companion found that the dialog was a bit distracting; people simply don't converse with one another the way the dialog was written; it almost played out more like an 'essay' than actual conversation although there were certainly intense moments where the characters 'linked' emotionally and the stage 'combat' we found to be riveting. Another reviewer described this play as 'more interesting than enjoyable'; we concur. Having said that however,anything that provokes artistic dialog after the fact (over dinner or a glass of wine) is a good time and this production certainly provoked thought and dialog...
We don't regret having seen it...
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Garrett Morris
Powerfully, efficiently presented. I just wanted to see Pullman on the stage and he gave an impressive performance as the self-doubting, skeptical professor. Julia Stiles was more than convincingly hateful and controlling as the insecure student who turns viciously on her mentor Pullman. The power shift between the two characters was so deftly handled and the intensity builds so subtly that by the end of the play (a short 1.25 hours), you'll find your jaw clenched and your hands balled in response to the extreme injustice and judgment called down unbelievably on the professor's head. The play presents a compelling argument for reasonable, civil, clear communication, compassion and understanding in human relations--how quickly our society would unravel into insanity without such intelligent discourse. In an odd twist, the author seems to be poking a sharp stick both at the gaseous bubble of academic arrogance and the naive but brutal lip service paid by an ignorant, self-righteous student so caught up in the fiery rhetoric of the feminist movement that she has quite simply completely missed the point of the movement's core philosphy. I've never been a big Mamet fan, but this piece has quite a punch.
The show was wonderful and the Taper is one of the best LA theatre venues I've visited. The Goldstar seats were perfect and better than some of the celebrities who were also at the show : )
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<p>The Pulitzer and Tony Award®-winning writer of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow returns to Center Theatre Group with a new production of his gripping drama of a power struggle between a male university professor and one of his female students.
Doug Hughes (Tony Award®, Doubt) directs, featuring film and stage stars Bill Pullman (Independence Day, While You Were Sleeping, Broadway’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?) and Julia Stiles (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum), who reprises her role, after performing to rave reviews on London’s West End.</p>