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tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-10-14 03:55 am
tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-10-14 03:55 am
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NEHAL. <3
Went to Pittsburgh to see Mother Teresa is Dead with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lady_iphigeneia. Play was good. "White people go to India for spiritual revelations" is painfully overdone, but at least it didn't fall into the trap of making Nehal's character the token ethnic guy--I thought it struck a nice balance with acknowledging cultural conflicts while having the main Issue of his character lie elsewhere. Namely, that he's just enough of a bastard to be worth liking. ;) All the characters were well-drawn, really, and I liked that they all got their turn to have their say and call the others out on their bullshit, and in the end let the audience decide who to sympathize with. But I was there to see Nehal and the chance to see good theatre was just a bonus, so it was him I was paying attention to really.
We almost missed him after the show, but we did manage to grab him eventually and he seemed really happy (and surprised!) that we'd come out to Pittsburgh to see him. Talked to us for about ten minutes, hugged us both, askedlady_iphigeneia what there was to do around town, chatted a bit about the incestuousness of the theater world and how he'd just seen Justin Bohon in a production of My Fair Lady directed by the former Les Mis stage manager. Haha. The whole day was just a really good time--road-tripping, wandering around the South Side, seeing Mother Teresa is Dead, and then Nehal being a darling. ♥ Love that boy, will see him in whatever else he ends up in.
(And then on the way home I listened to my TAC for the first time in ages. Oh, the crack. Who the eff is that singing "and in a bed!" in ATEOTD? She sounds like Angela Lansbury on meth.)
lady_iphigeneia. Play was good. "White people go to India for spiritual revelations" is painfully overdone, but at least it didn't fall into the trap of making Nehal's character the token ethnic guy--I thought it struck a nice balance with acknowledging cultural conflicts while having the main Issue of his character lie elsewhere. Namely, that he's just enough of a bastard to be worth liking. ;) All the characters were well-drawn, really, and I liked that they all got their turn to have their say and call the others out on their bullshit, and in the end let the audience decide who to sympathize with. But I was there to see Nehal and the chance to see good theatre was just a bonus, so it was him I was paying attention to really.We almost missed him after the show, but we did manage to grab him eventually and he seemed really happy (and surprised!) that we'd come out to Pittsburgh to see him. Talked to us for about ten minutes, hugged us both, asked
lady_iphigeneia what there was to do around town, chatted a bit about the incestuousness of the theater world and how he'd just seen Justin Bohon in a production of My Fair Lady directed by the former Les Mis stage manager. Haha. The whole day was just a really good time--road-tripping, wandering around the South Side, seeing Mother Teresa is Dead, and then Nehal being a darling. ♥ Love that boy, will see him in whatever else he ends up in.(And then on the way home I listened to my TAC for the first time in ages. Oh, the crack. Who the eff is that singing "and in a bed!" in ATEOTD? She sounds like Angela Lansbury on meth.)
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