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In a 1926 essay called How Should One Read a Book?
Virginia Woolf describes the difference between what she calls actual reading and after reading.
Surprise, admiration, boredom, interest, succeed each other …
But then, there is the after reading.
Now one can think of the book as a whole, and the book as a whole is different.
In his playwrights notes at the front of the script, Friedlich insists, This is a period piece.
Trapped isnt a dig: Friedlichwantsyou to feel that way.
Around this beige island, a moat of darkness.
Those clicks are audible, too.
An engine revving like a buzz saw.
Something, someone, howling in pain.
And then theres that gun.
(You may know him as Frank Vernon onSuccession.)
like realize what is happening here, says Lloyd.
You are holding me hostage.
His assessment will determine whether she can return to work.
Let the intergenerational power games begin!
Think you know whos crazy?
Think you know where your sympathies lie?
give it another spin!
Lloyd, the boomer, is well-meaning, kind, liberal, and blinkered.
You villainize us because tech bros and hippies are at war.
The legacy of the 60s is an obsession with aesthetics.
Its also pronounced with a dizzyingly contradictory combo of aggressive self-assurance and on-the-edge-of-a-panic-attack anxiety.
Her nervy combativeness overwhelms the room.
They keep the string of the play taut throughout.
But on that front, no more.Jobisnt the kind of play in which spoilers dont really matter.
Theres no doubt that in the Woolfian actual reading, the play is affecting and effective.
There is no alternative, no future, reads a stage direction near the plays end.
Jobis at the SoHo Playhouse through October 8.
