Reviews for Hear and Now

The average rating for Hear and Now based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-04-16 00:00:00 Daniel Kamen Rounded up to 4 stars. Interest in the story and how it would turn out lured me through the highly-unorthodox spelling--even a person's name was spelled "Lacy," then "Lacie," then "Lacey" and not all that far apart, either. One of the many I first learned about through my mother's MASTERPLOTS set of summaries and critiques of world literature.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-01-21 00:00:00 Jonathan Calfee i dont really know that you or anyone else needs me to rate a 17th century play about shoemakers so take that four stars as mostly meaningless BUT this play = pretty funny, pretty weird, in a direct conversation with shakespeare's henry v basically what happens here is there are some shoemakers, and then one of them is secretly an irresolute rich man who is in love with a middle-class lady, and he sends ralph (one of the shoemakers) to the wars in his stead so he can stay and woo (he must go about disguised as a dutchman named hans in order to do this). meanwhile his mean uncle hires a random pepe lepew ish nobleman to court the middle-class lady, and all kinds of goofiness happens, including lots of costume changes, then ralph comes back missing a leg or something, then there is a plot event involving identifying a special custom-made pair of shoes, then rascality, then the shoemakers basically have a hoedown and declare a new shoemaker-centric holiday and then it's over emerging theory: i'm pretty sure the movie caddyshack is based on this play