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The Black Monk has been called a singular "collaboration" between two writers: Anton Chekhov and David Rabe. Based on Chekov's novella of the same name, Rabe's brilliant stage adaptation tells the story of Kovrin, the young philosophy student who returns from Moscow to the estate owned by Pesotsky, where he spent his youth. Kovrin and Pesotsky's daughter, Tanya, soon fall in love and plan to marry. But the appearance of an emissary from the unknown — the black monk — threatens to have a devastating effect on all of them.
Trouble starts in when Teresa tells her brother Joey that this guy Ray did something to her with his dog in bed. Nobody seems to know exactly what happened, but they do know that somebody's got to pay. So what is The Dog Problem? It starts with being born into a world where the wrong thing said to the wrong person ignites a chain reaction of misplaced passions and galloping sentences that race to a deadly conclusion. The playful title is revealed to be a wry pun on the Cartesian mind/body problem, as Uncle Mal, the aging mobster, must face his turn to be the dog in this darkly funny play about men, women, sex, betrayal, and ghosts.
Vastly different in their aesthetic, these two recent and highly praised plays embody all of the celebrated hallmarks of David Rabe's writing and art: unflinchingly honest and perceptive themes, starkly luminous dialogue, and the unsettling humor that have made him an icon of the American theater for more than forty years.
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Ace Kuenzli
reviewed The Black Monk/The Dog Problem: Two Plays on March 31, 2013
The Black Monk/The Dog Problem: Two Plays
"You are here to unfurl your crime across the satellite skies."
Don DeLillo, Valparaiso
A small two-act play that examines our media culture, exhibitionism, and banality. It feels like we've entered a reality show that never seems to reach its destination. There are parts of this that seem brilliant and parts, unfortunately, that fall a bit flat. I'm a big DeLillo fan and particularly love his fiction. His plays, play I guess, just not as hard. Like one chord, strummed over and over.
One of my best friends saw this when it opened in Cambridge back in 1999. It would be interesting to see it performed, but I'm not sure if seeing it live would make it better. Perhaps, but only because the whole play is about performance. Its power is derived from being performed.
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