THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#1THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
Posted: 10/23/13 at 9:30pm
Saw it tonight. Whew!
Those who think AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY is hard-hitting family drama won't be able to handle this. It's perhaps Donald Margulies' masterpiece and so, so, soooooooo far above his more popular works like TIME STANDS STILL and DINNER WITH FRIENDS.
I simply have no words. Other than see it. And that just about everyone involved deserves an Obie award.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#2THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
Posted: 10/23/13 at 9:47pm
Article about Diane Davis, who plays the mentally disturbed daughter
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#2THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
Posted: 10/24/13 at 9:50pmI can't stop thinking about this production. Has anyone seen it? I think it's sold out but definitely rush it. The play is on a par with VIRGINIA WOOLF as a waking nightmare. In the moment after the final blackout and before curtain call, you could have heard a pin drop.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#3THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
Posted: 10/24/13 at 10:00pmWhat's it like? Because I hated TImes Stands Still and Dinner with Friends. I hate plays where people just sit/stand around and bitch. I need a plot.
PlayItAgain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/11
#4THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
Posted: 10/25/13 at 2:34amit doesn't matter, the entire rest of the run is absolutely sold out.
#5THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
Posted: 10/25/13 at 3:17amWas the rush only "if available"? Any change of an extension?
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#6THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
Posted: 10/25/13 at 9:10amIt's a completely different animal from TIME STANDS STILL and DINNER WITH FRIENDS. Not nearly as middlebrow. It's angry and it's searing. And, yes, it's sold out. Hopefully, they will extend.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
daredevil
Featured Actor Joined: 8/17/05
#7THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
Posted: 10/25/13 at 11:44amBorstal Boy said it beautifully, angry and searing, exactly. Actually I have not seen this production but in the mid eighties I was reading plays for the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference and was assigned The Model Apartment. I don't know what plays of Margolis I was aware of then, but I think my vision of him was that of a bright but "safe" playwright. I still remember how stunned I was as I read this play. I thought then that it was incredibly daring, and might be a little too threatening for a "normal" audience. So I am really thrilled at the reviews and the recognition that the play is receiving now. It seems to have become extremely hard to move successful off Broadway not for profit theater productions (like The Whale, or Detroit) to a commercial off Broadway venue, but I am hoping that a way is found to continue the life of this production.
#8THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
Posted: 10/25/13 at 1:17pmlooks like 3 tickets have opened up tonight on ticketcentral.com
#9THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
Posted: 10/25/13 at 4:45pmToo bad more people didn't see it before the reviews came out and tickets were widely available. But I'm glad it's selling out. Diane Davis is giving a truly remarkable performance, and this is about as good a production of the play we're likely to see. I'd love for it to extend, but I don't think that's possible.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
stevenycguy
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
#11THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
Posted: 10/25/13 at 11:32pm
I'm curious why Primary Stages didn't choose to move this play to Broadway or their summer show with Randy Harrison (instead of Bronx Bombers). I enjoyed both of these shows quite a bit; well-acted dramas.
Updated On: 10/26/13 at 11:32 PM
PlayItAgain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/11
#12THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
Posted: 10/26/13 at 12:47amBECAUSE BRONX BOMBERS IS BEING FINANCED BY THE YANKEES AND MLB! (really not that hard to figure out)
daredevil
Featured Actor Joined: 8/17/05
#13THE MODEL APARTMENT at Primary Stages
Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:22am
I don't think "chose" is the right word, in terms of a move. Like the previous poster said,
Bronx Bombers is moving because someone found the financing to bring it to Broadway, obviously if it opens near spring, the producers expect there to be a lot of interest from the upscale baseball crowd. By themselves, I doubt that Primary Stages has the money to finance a move to off Broadway (I doubt that at this point due to the subject matter, and vision of the play, anyone would consider moving it to Broadway) by itself; the hope is that a few other serious producers might want to finance an off Broadway production.
