Comments on: Seattle Rep’s This Isn’t All That, But It’s Pretty Cool (Review) http://thesunbreak.com/2011/04/14/seattle-reps-this-isnt-all-that-but-its-pretty-cool/ Curious Georges in a conversation with Seattle Wed, 18 Feb 2015 07:17:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: Michael van Baker http://thesunbreak.com/2011/04/14/seattle-reps-this-isnt-all-that-but-its-pretty-cool/#comment-4241 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:01:00 +0000 http://thesunbreak.com/?p=871606#comment-4241 The brake systems for the doors were really over the top. That was a little insane.

I didn’t feel like Alan was self-loathing for being gay–he was self-loathing for being full of potential and squandering it. That’s a huge difference. The mnemonist part seems more out of the ’60s.

Fully agree on the last point.

]]> By: Anonymous http://thesunbreak.com/2011/04/14/seattle-reps-this-isnt-all-that-but-its-pretty-cool/#comment-4240 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:30:00 +0000 http://thesunbreak.com/?p=871606#comment-4240 Finally saw this last night, really wished I didn’t. Seemed like a baby God of Carnage, which I couldn’t bear the second time through (of course the 1st time was with the great original Broadway cast, so that was a pretty high bar). Other thoughts –

The doorways were incredibly distracting. I learned that there are 3 brake mechanisms for the door, and each must be disengaged, then re-engaged for each change. I shouldn’t know that.

Alan seemed to me a stereotypical self-loathing gay character right out of the 60s. Ugggh.

And one clue for upcoming playwrights – when you’ve set up a trivial situation and made us all suffer through it for over an hour, do NOT deliver a punchline that pronounces the whole think ‘dinky’. We know that already, and it ain’t that funny.

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