Did Dog Day Afternoon Get Away With It?
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Watching Moss-Bachrach, who can lead with his chest when he wants to, skulk in the shadows, so sad and sullen and aloof, keeping an uneasy eye on Sonny the way a frightened child monitors a parent, I wondered what it would feel like for him and Bernthal to swap parts. Flip a coin at each performance to see who’s the light and who’s the dark. For all the mess and muddle we find them in, the protagonists of Dog Day Afternoon balance and care for one another. The play in turn makes us care for them, out there in all their recklessness on the edge of the night. In doing so, it still serves as a reminder that love, too, is political.
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