Reviews for Plays: Before Daybreak, the Weavers, the Beaver Coat, Vol. 57

The average rating for Plays: Before Daybreak, the Weavers, the Beaver Coat, Vol. 57 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-20 00:00:00 Barbars Spittle HOFFMANN (still censuring): That is not the point at issue. I repeat: I speak not absurdity, but rather that which I must implore you to accept as incontrovertibly true. I speak from experience. He manages to befog your mind for you, and all of a sudden you find yourself ranting about the universal brotherhood of man, about freedom, about equality. Then you start considering yourself above every tradition, every convention, every established ethic. Once upon a time, for the sake of this insanity, we were -- God knows -- prepared to trample on the corpses of our own parents to achieve our ends. And you can believe me when I tell you that he would, if need be, do the same thing to this very day. HELEN: And how many parents manage each livelong day to march over the bodies of their children without anyone even...

Review # 2 was written on 2019-07-16 00:00:00 Fred Sanford Before Daybreak was my favorite. The weavers is almost carnival in its menagerie of the poor and The Beaver Coat is the most ibsenesque (although all are). All three are concerned with the depiction of impovershed, and the deflation of the Bourgeois notion at the time that the poor are also at fault for their own condition, or personally contemptible, etc.