SIGHT UNSEEN is the next play and I wanted to share with you something that Elisa Golden or Dramaturg brought to my attention…Elisa is Great.

 

I found this today as I was searching for link to Fischl and Waxman:

California’s South Coast Repertory commissioned and produced Margulies’s eighth full-length play, Sight Unseen, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. The award-winning play enjoyed an eight-month run with a production that began at the Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II and later was moved to the Orpheum Theatre. The play centers around Jonathan Waxman, "an American Jewish painter whose controversial works are bought–sight unseen–for bundles of money," explained Stephen J. Dubner in his New York magazine review. Not content with fame and wealth, the artist is portrayed as a man without hope, unsettled and intense. The play is a recounting of Waxman’s search for meaning, an attempt to make sense of the price he has paid for fame. Some critics maintained that Waxman was modeled after artist Eric Fischl, who saw the play and was not thrilled. "The artist came off looking like a charlatan, a character who can’t defend himself. And I certainly don’t know any artist whose sole purpose is to become famous and make a lot of money," he told Dubner. Margulies was aware of the resemblance, but claimed to admire Fischl as an artist. Theater critic John Simon noted in New York, "Any serious examination of anything is going to upset somebody. . . . Margulies cloaks things in nothing. He gives them to you as he sees them, but as he sees them very carefully and conscientiously and thoughtfully observed, from all sides."
 

Sorry…couldn’t avoid that one…no…really it is a GREAT SHOW and you should see it!!! Ann Hicks of the Greenville News said it is "proof of why we go to the theatre!" Darn good.

 

Ok…the actual seagull get’s shot and stuffed…but the play rocks!