My friend Jorge is a BRILLIANT playwright. His play was reviewed in the New York Times today! Whoo hoo! Check out the review and go see it, if you can! [I have since updated this link and I think this one works. ]
There is a really smart review from a reader who saw the play who says:
"The pleasure here, if you can manage to hear it, is the ambitious script. If you like your theater light and easy to digest, stay away. On the other hand, if you like Beckett and Pinter, there is much here you will enjoy...There is no magic realism, just a very dark existentialism. The play excavates political violence and seems to suggest our complicity in that violence runs deeper than we often admit. What's impressive, is that the writer has communicated those concerns within a story that is genuinely engaging. Maybe it's just the West Indian in me, but in a season dominated (so far) by white, (more or less) naturalistic comedies, this play stands out."
I couldn't have said it better myself!
Once upon a time, a long long time ago, we were in a poetry workshop together. One day, he deviated into playwriting and never came back (who knows, possibly in his secret journals...). He's won all kinds of awards and fellowships, too, and his writing is beautiful. How he takes the stress of all the other people one has to work with to have plays performed, I'll never know!
2 comments:
This play looks fascinating. The link at first didn't work for me, so if someone else was to find it, just search for Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas (the Times actually uses the "n" with the tilde above). Have you seen the play? I wonder if it's coming to Chi.
I have seen it -- it is so so so good! I like his writing best of all, it is so beautiful. So far, no one knows how to deal with it well enough, IMHO.
And though I tried to fix it, you are right. The link doesn't work. I just can't get it. But you can look up "Tight Embrace" in the theatre listings...
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