Reviews for Divorce, remarriage, and blended families

The average rating for Divorce, remarriage, and blended families based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-01-23 00:00:00 Dennis Record I don't think there's very much point in writing beautiful, lengthy, wordy plays that can't be performed and won't be understood by an audience. Maybe this is controversial, maybe I'm just stupid. But if I, as a someone with a BA in theatre can't follow even most of the references in a story, what hope does someone like my mother have who doesn't even recognize the title "The Oresteia"? "Tantalus" tries to hard to do too much and doesn't even end up being a very good story. It doesn't do justice to the greek women in proclaims to uplift, and it skirts the currently accepted truths of a great number of the greek heroes. Despite being many years more modern than Aeschylus, it feels much more outdated. It can't be performed as a full cycle of ten plays, and it many of it's ten can't be performed alone. If you are looking for a rewrite of greek myth, discussion on the rape of women in myth, and a similar poetry to the ancient texts.... I'd recommend picking up Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker over this.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-08-03 00:00:00 Brandy Moore Truly remarkable. A very wordy read from one of my theatre idols. This is a very challenging piece, both in performance and on the page. It's best to find (his sadly-out-of-print) "The Greeks", which retells the traditional stories. These stories are like the fragments that don't get told. But what poetry, and what insight! Bliss.