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Title: Painting churches by Tina Howe ISBN: 0-573-61939-5 Publisher: S. French Pub. Date: 1984 Format: Paperback

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Painting Churches
Comment: I thought this play was really poorly written, although I did see it performed, so maybe that tainted my view of it. But the dialogue between Mags and her parents was just awful and really off beat. The fact that they did nothing except interrupt each other was obviously a hard thing for Howe to put onto the page, because when real people interrupt each other, they don't wait for the other person to finish their idea. It seemed very contrived. Also, important events that happened in the middle of the play were not addressed later when they really should have been. In my honest opinion, the play should have ended at the end of Act 2, Scene 1, but for some strange reason, it didn't end. Howe didn't feel the need to put any important events into other scenes in Act 2, but she also didn't want it to end. That's just bad writing. If you don't have something important to say, then just end it. The same thing happened with the first act. I could have read the second act and still known what was going on. The first act did nothing to establish the play. It had some good points, and that's why it received two stars from me, and not zero. I loved the father's character.

Rating: 5
Summary: A sketch of a family
Comment: This is a really lovely play that examines the way family interacts allowing a reader to love the characters, while at the same time showing the annoying characteristics that the characters encompass (perhaps designed to remind us of our own families?). The dialogue is very witty and fast and there is an aspect of nostalgia that is communicated through language and color which is beautiful on paper and probably even more so on stage.