Down With Sweaters

[forestfledgling]

It is once again my painful duty to pick up the role of Theatre Critic, as I am screaming with opinion, so here it is for Down With Sweaters. WARNING: contains spoilers

Comments

[corbistheca]

naea -- beg to differ, i thought sweaters was rather awesome (though of a distinctly overused allegorical type). i think the "ambiguity, confusion and insanity" of the play were quite intentional and effective. it seemed to me to be a play about the co-optation of creativity by the "establishment" and the question of whether art (meaning creativity in any form) can ever actually succeed in acting against the "establishment" -- whether we have any real choices. and it was certainly left unresolved -- because there is no resolution. we don't know whether there's any way out, or whether we're truly trapped. i don't know what mike chose when he shot the audience member sitting next to me -- all we know is that he didn't choose either of the choices he was offered -- it's not a play about art or sweaters, it's a play about choice.
anyway, just my two cents, i couldn't bear to not make SOME defence, as i rather loved sweaters myself. you are perfectly entitled to dislike it. myself i'm rather fond of that overused, allegorical mode. :)
~ c

[midnightbrave]

So, basically, you're saying it's a cliched piece of trashy pretentious art-fuck playwriting? Awesome!

Why I don't write plays: my play would be three hours long and go NOWHERE. And then, if people questioned why it was pointless, I could bust out the whole existential "Well, isn't life pointless" bs and be all "WHOA DEEP!" =P

[kiyara]

hmm. not entirely sure i want to see it, if it's like that. but i want to see mike. decisions, decisions!

[forestfledgling]

Go see it. It's worth seeing, just don't expect any sort of catharsis or deep personal meaning. And the acting is very good.