May 13, 2018
My theory is that social media is so popular because it gives us all the opportunity to share our experiences, to talk about them, to process why we love, hate, like, dislike something.
I think writing reviews has always given me this same kind of satisfaction.
You go to a play and it excites you or it is a piece of sh#@ or you learn something or it makes you think, “Yeah, right.” And, we want to share these things with other members of the human race.
Sometimes when we try, they stifle yawns.
If you are a writer, you can write what you think of different types of Art. It is down there on paper and people can pass it by but at least some people will read it.
And, it is leaving a mark.
I was there and this is what I think (thought) about being there:
The Uniter
1978?
Forever yours Marie-Lou
by Tanya Lester
If entertainment is something funny, light, or a reality escape, MTC Warehouse’s “Forever Yours Marie-Lou” is not entertaining.
Michel Tremblay’s play deals very effectively with a depressingly real aspect of society. The audience is forced inside the walls of a Montreal apartment and into a private family’s life. A family that is being destroyed by North America’s biggest hang up — sex.
To emphasize the reality, the play is written in the surrealistic genre.
The surrealism is difficult to detect in the first few minutes of the play. There are four characters, on the stage, who appear to be talking about something they do not want to do. Then, it all becomes apparent.
The sisters, Carmen (Theresa Tova) and Manon (Alexe Duncan), are discussing something they would like to block from their memories forever. Meanwhile downstage, the parents, Marie-Louise (Elan Ross Gibson) and Leopold (Peter Rogan), are re-enacting the events that caused the tragedy Carmen and Manon are desperately trying to forget.
At first, the audience sympathizes, as the pathetic Carmen does, with Marie-Louise. The broken-down woman reminds her husband of the times he has raped her. Then, the audience turns to pity the drunken Leopold and the whorish Manon.
By the end of the play, however, the audience realizes that society, and not the family, is to blame for their tragedy.
“We’re like gears in a big wheel,” said Leopold, “but we’re scared to stop it because we think we’re too small.”
In “Forever Yours Marie-Lou”, the actors yell and scream to be heard and are heard. The audience becomes totally aware of the problem. Typically surrealistic, the play lacks only one important think: the solution.
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Tanya Lester works mostly as a psychic now; with a specialty in tea leaf reading and tarot. She is also a Reiki master and a fulltime housesitter. To find out more go to her web: teareading.wordpress.com and/or to her pages on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google. To book a reading with her, text/call 250-538-0086 or email: tealeaf.56@gmail.com
To read more posts on this blog of eclectic writings in various genres and themes, go to writingsmall.wordpress.com and tealeaf56.wordpress.com
Tanya’s books are: Confessions of a Tea Leaf Reader, Friends I Never Knew, Dreams and Tricksters as well as Women Rights/Writes.
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