Greater Clements
Greater Clements
#1Greater Clements
Posted: 11/25/19 at 4:33pmI haven't seen any reviews on here. Has anyone seen it? Love Judith Ivey and liked The Whale. I'm curious. Any opinions appreciated!
mar6411
Broadway Star Joined: 9/19/09
#2Greater Clements
Posted: 11/25/19 at 4:49pm
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1120055#
BIG BALONEY
Leading Actor Joined: 6/21/03
#3Greater Clements
Posted: 11/25/19 at 6:44pmI saw it and wondered why it's 3 1/2 hours long. Two intermissions and I'll let the paid critics have their say.
#4Greater Clements
Posted: 11/26/19 at 4:57am
mar6411 said: "https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1120055#
Thank you for pointing it out. I'm going to see it.
#5Greater Clements
Posted: 12/16/19 at 1:14pm
I saw it this weekend and really loved it. My favorite show this weekend out of the four I saw. Didn't feel like over 3 hours, but I do think the entire last scene is unnecessary. Could've shaved 10 minutes off the time by ending it with the scene in the mine.
#6Greater Clements
Posted: 12/16/19 at 1:27pm
Anshel2 said: "I saw it this weekend and really loved it. My favorite show this weekend out of the four I saw. Didn't feel like over 3 hours, but I do think the entire last scene is unnecessary. Could've shaved 10 minutes off the time by ending it with the scene in the mine."
Top of the list of what I saw this weekend as well. Edmund Donovan and Nina Hellman are wonderful! It does fly by, though it could be leaner and a better story without the final scene and a couple of thinly portrayed characters..
#7Greater Clements
Posted: 12/16/19 at 1:32pmThe two leads were good but the staging was frustrating and the play could have been cut.
#8Greater Clements
Posted: 12/16/19 at 2:46pm
I saw the play yesterday afternoon and found it to be one of the most satisfying experiences I’ve had in a while. The three hours flew by. Judith Ivey is extraordinary in the leading role — that’s a word I don’t toss around lightly — and Edmund Donovan is very good as well.
I thought the final twenty minutes were devastating.
The staging is problematic as, no matter where you sit, your view will be obstructed at some point. I was initially seated in the center section and was smack in front of one of the structural columns. I moved to the front row of the house left section at the first intermission, which was much better. Unlike most productions at the Newhouse, I would say the sides are much more desirable than the center here.
"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
SouthernCakes
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/19
#9Greater Clements
Posted: 1/8/20 at 11:03pm
Saw this tonight & really loved it! I loved the staging and found it to be widely inventive and interesting (I was in the back portion and noticed that the desk was mechanized to move up and down every so slightly for better sightlines).
Judith Ivey was incredible! Her and Donovan are the reason to see the show.
It def. could use some trimming but I loved it
HBBrock
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/11/07
#10Greater Clements
Posted: 1/9/20 at 12:38am
I was there tonight for the second time and LOVED it. The time flew by, and I don’t think it needed to be trimmed at all. :)
SouthernCakes
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/19
#11Greater Clements
Posted: 1/9/20 at 1:09am
I tend to agree! I think the last scene seemed tacked on, but then I watch Judith through the scene and it all, emotionally, came to me and it felt justified.
JVJ93
Featured Actor Joined: 3/27/16
#12Greater Clements
Posted: 1/9/20 at 9:25am
I didn’t enjoy this as much as Lewiston/Clarkston last season, but I still Thought this was very solid and well written/acted. It actually felt very Arthur Miller-esque throughout, especially the ending
#13Greater Clements
Posted: 1/19/20 at 2:15am
Saw the matinee yesterday, and was absolutely blown away by the sensitivity and nuance of this piece. The characters, as portrayed and written, felt like real people.
Ivey was out but her understudy, Caitlin O’Connell, was excellent. The entire cast is without fault, but Edmund Donovan gave one of the best stage performances I’ve seen in years. So authentic, so devastating.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#14Greater Clements
Posted: 1/19/20 at 11:17am
I saw this a bit ago and I really enjoyed it. I thought the direction was problematic (so many obstructions with the set design, as well!) but the writing and the performances were pretty great. It felt like the show wasn't sure how to end (that final scene was a little too pat for me), but the three hours FLEW by. The only weak link in the cast was Ken Narasaki - he seemed to be in over his head. Judith Ivey was terrific, but to me the best performance came from Edmund Donovan. I was absolutely blown away by him. I don't say this lightly, but I found his performance to truly be one of the best I've seen in a play...ever. He was worth the price of admission, alone.
Updated On: 1/20/20 at 11:17 AM#15Greater Clements
Posted: 1/19/20 at 12:38pm
WiCkEDrOcKS said: "the best performance came from Edmund Donovan. I was absolutely blown away by him - I don't say this lightly, but what his performancewas truly one of the best I've seen in a play...ever. He wasworth the price of admission, alone."
Agreed 100%.
Hopelesslydevoted24
Understudy Joined: 12/30/19
#16Greater Clements
Posted: 1/19/20 at 2:07pm
WiCkEDrOcKS said: "I saw this a bit ago and I really enjoyed it. I thought the direction was problematic (so many obstructions with the set design, as well!) but the writing and the performances were pretty great. It felt like the show wasn't sure how to end (that final scene was a little too pat for me), but the three hours FLEW by. The only weak link in the cast was Ken Narasaki - he seemed to be in over his head.Judith Ivey was terrific, but to me the best performance came from Edmund Donovan. I was absolutely blown away by him - I don't say this lightly, but what his performancewas truly one of the best I've seen in a play...ever. He wasworth the price of admission, alone."
i wholeheartedly endorse this message. My sentiments exactly.
