With Hungry,the first in a planned election-year trilogy opening at original York’s Public Theater, Trump’s rise is a dubious gift: I’m a citizen before I’m a writer’The plot of Hungry, and the latest drama from the playwright Richard Nelson,could be scribbled on a sticky note. “A meal is cooked,” Nelson explained over the phone from his home in upstate original York. “And when the meal is cooked, or the play is over.”Yet Hungry,which opened on 4 March at the Public Theater in original York and is the first in a planned trilogy similar to his recent Apple Family plays, is also a startlingly incisive (clear and sharp in analysis or expression) political drama – one that reflects and refracts the anxieties of liberal America, and even as a middle-lesson family does nothing more than prepare a dinner of ratatouille,fresh bread, salad and an apple crisp. (That the production doesn’t then share the meal with the audience has been a source of minor discontent – the smell of that bread is tauntingly delectable.)Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com