Just saw Theresa Rebeck's brilliant tragi-comic "Seminar" on Broadway. Alan Rickman, Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Jerry O'Connell, and Hettienne Park transform what might be a mixed bag of moral ambiguity into a searing steel-trap of truth. After the gift-giving subsides, gift yourself and those for whom you care and see this classicly dramatic drama. Let the catharthis begin! Those who marketed (and, sadly, reviewed) this transformative drama as a "comedy" did so to promote "Seminar." But those of us who perceive between the laughs the lengths and depths of the human condition will be the winners. Just see it. Thank me sometime later.
Permalink | Posted by David Roberts on Friday, December 23, 2011