We interrupt this Betrayal broadcast for a digression on plays related to the polemical dramas we discussed Monday.
Betrayed Wives
I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between a playwright’s voice and a play’s voice.
‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’
A clip-showish article for a clip-showish movie:
Twice Upon a Betrayal
To continue — and to further complicate (hopefully) — Monday’s conversation concerning the treatment of morality in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood:
Once Upon a Betrayal
Welcome to BETRAYED!, a week’s worth of diatribes inspired by the current Broadway revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal.
Projection
Chained for Life is 2019’s smartest cinematic contribution-cum-excavation of the current discourse surrounding #Representation.
Imagine All the People
The title of Imagining Madoff — now running at Theatre Row, courtesy of New Light Theater Project — describes both the play’s mission and its titular subject’s preferred activity, a duality that probes the similarities between Bernie’s famed — infamous? — misdeeds and the nature of historical storytelling in art.
Thoroughbreeding
Does Wednesday’s piece regarding The Death of Death Long feel…incomplete?
Horseplay
How can a movie that hinges on a horse fucking a guy to death be so…boringly conventional?
Yuxi
What Jexi could’ve been:
