Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll from A.C.T.
A.C.T. (415 Geary St. San Francisco, CA 94102)
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The last date listed for Rock 'n' Roll was Saturday October 18, 2008 / 8:00pm.
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Goldstar Member Reviews
Rodney A.
As always, I have to read Stoppard plays after seeing them because there is so much too them. Excellent story and cast.Written on Oct 06 2008
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Sidechair
Remember the play mocked in Stoppard's _The Real Thing_? The political play that doesn't feel like a play at all because it's all words, no soul? Director Carey Perloff has turned this difficult cricket-bat of a play into that kind of a wooden work.Written on Oct 20 2008
Actors continuously deliver wordy arguments intellectually and to the audience, making connections between the characters hard to understand. It's true that this is a hard play, full of political ideas. But Stoppard did not set out to write a diatribe, let alone one that requires a previous understanding of Eastern European history to appreciate it. Certain core parts of the play are lost entirely because of the director's insistence on enunciating the political story: the feeling of the music is lost; talk of the soul seems empty; the Greek poetry comes across as irrelevant. The actors seem to have been directed to seem awkward and angry, just like mouthpieces in a propaganda play, right down to their distractingly unnatural accents.
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Elizabeth
It just seemed so distant that I could not hear half the words spoken. And because the play is set in Poland during the 60s to current that if you don't know your history too well, you get lost.Written on Oct 22 2008
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Nancy
great history lesson with snappy dailogue and music referencesWritten on Oct 22 2008
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More Information About Rock 'n' Roll
Website
http://www.act-sf.org/089/rocknroll/index.html
Quotes & Highlights
- "A.C.T.'s Rock rolls in Stoppard's genius. Heartbreaking. Extraordinary!" --San Francisco Examiner
- "Stylish. Captivating. The dialog crackles." --Contra Costa Times
- "One of Stoppard's most personal and teasingly passionate plays." --San Francisco Chronicle
Description
A rapturous, decades-spanning tale of Prague's rock revolution, Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll follows the passions and politics of a Marxist professor in Cambridge and his Rolling Stones–obsessed protégé fighting for freedom in Soviet-dominated Prague. Nominated for four 2008 Tony Awards, Rock 'n' Roll pulsates to the beat of the Stones, Pink Floyd, and Syd Barrett, Floyd's disturbed genius, whose reclusive life becomes a haunting motif of the play.