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Time Stands Still

By jeremyblachman

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I saw this Donald Margulies play last night at the Geffen Theater. I've linked to the LA Times review, but don't read it if you're going to see the play, because it's got spoilers -- I'm glad I didn't read it before seeing the show. I really like Margulies -- his plays very directly deal with interesting life issues in thought-provoking ways. This one's about a photojournalist who returns from Iraq with war injuries, and there's some stuff about the merits of photojournalism (taking pictures of suffering as opposed to working more directly to stop the suffering) but the big issue the play deals with is ambition and seeking an "important" life versus finding contentment in routine and stability. So, definitely touched on some of the career-related angsty stuff I blogged about a couple of weeks ago.

It's been a little while since I've seen a play in a theater -- I went to so many more of these things in New York, partly because of the price, partly because I had more people to go see shows with, partly because there is so much more new, interesting, compelling theater in New York. I'd forgotten how homogenous the theater audience is. My friend and I were probably the youngest people there, by ten years or so, and I don't think I saw anyone who'd look out of place in, say, a 1940s corporate boardroom (and their wives). The Geffen is adjacent to the UCLA campus, but I don't think there was a single student there. Theater is too expensive, and too irrelevant, and that's unfortunate because a lot of theater is worth seeing. Certainly more worth seeing than a lot of movies and television.

Then again, you think too hard and pretty much everything is irrelevant. There are TV shows on cable that over a hundred people work on, that writers and actors spend years dealing with, and a relative handful (for TV audience numbers, anyway) of people watch. There are movies that people spend years on and they never get made, or go straight to DVD. Can't get sucked into this vortex of thinking virtually everything is irrelevant. Need to climb out of it.

Full post as published by Jeremy Blachman's Brand New Weblog on February 16, 2009 (boomark / email).

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