If anyone has a spare 3 minutes, here's a clip of John Lithgow and B.D. Wong in a scene from M. Butterfly on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dY4eGDCowQ . With plays, I always feel like I get more out of both reading the text and watching it as a staged production. B.D. Wong's falsetto singing voice isn't too bad, either!
--Vivian Lin
posted by Seung Hye @ 12:57 AM
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This is really interesting. When I read the play, because the issues at hand were more serious and dark, I treated the play as a drama. I recognized the attempts at humor in order to lighten a dark subject, but I still saw the overall play as serious. When I watched your clip, however, the performance seemed more humorous than dramatic. So, was the play intended to be a comedy? Even though the issues are dramatic and serious? Also, I do feel like having John Lithgow play Gallimard was a funny choice of actor because I think most people think of him as a comedian and I, for one, see him as the goofball alien patriach Dick Solomon from "3rd Rock from the Sun"...
oops, actually, i take back what I said about John Lithgow in my previous comment...I just realized this play was produced in 1988, way before his comedic alien fame from "3rd Rock"
i think he played creepy bad guy roles in films but can't remember which.
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