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Three Plays: Gruesome Playground Injuries / Animals Out Of Paper / Bengal Tiger At The Baghdad Zoo (2010)

by Rajiv Joseph(Favorite Author)

4.17 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1593762941 (ISBN13: 9781593762940)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Soft Skull Press

review 1: ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER was my favorite among these plays. Second: GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES. Both well imagined & thought out, both lyrically written, with fascinating characters. I saw BENGAL TIGER IN THE BAGHDAD ZOO on Broadway before reading it. It's a fine play, but I found Robin Williams both a distraction & a detraction from the play & its production. I love Robin Williams the comic, & I liked him in the movie, GOODWILL HUNTING, but in TIGER all I saw was an actor working awfully hard to get his timing right. I never saw the tiger, which was the role he played. A pity. That tiger’s mind would have been interesting to follow, had I seen it brooding & philosophizing, as we’re meant to do. Instead, I saw the actor aiming his words at the right moment in time, b... moreetween his fellow actors’ lines. Never really saw the tiger immersed in his own, interior reflections.
review 2: definitely have some respect for joseph as a playwright after reading these plays. bengal tiger is the strongest and most ambitious play in the book, by far, though there are a couple little sly tricks he pulls that kind of make me a little wary. gruesome playground injuries was just a little like, "????" animals out of paper i saw in production -- it's fine. well-constructed, but pretty unmemorable. anyway. less

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