Amanda
It can be a hard thing to judge a play by reading the script: without an actor to give voice to the writing, the words often just sit as dead things on the page. Unfortunately, that was my experience of reading these two short plays.
In The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant I found the characters selfish and malicious and Blood on the Neck of the Cat left me feeling like I was standing in the middle of a crowd being overwhelmed by other people's conversations.
These two plays might be brilliant when they're performed, but I can't recommend them as reading material.
Received via NetGalley.
It can be a hard thing to judge a play by reading the script: without an actor to give voice to the writing, the words often just sit as dead things on the page. Unfortunately, that was my experience of reading these two short plays.
In The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant I found the characters selfish and malicious and Blood on the Neck of the Cat left me feeling like I was standing in the middle of a crowd being overwhelmed by other people's conversations.
These two plays might be brilliant when they're performed, but I can't recommend them as reading material.
Received via NetGalley.