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Title: The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry ISBN: 1-55936-140-9 Publisher: Theatre Communications Group Pub. Date: December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I Can't Get Enough
Comment: Alfred Uhry's "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" is truly a modern day masterpiece. It resorts back to the classic style of playwriting, which I greatly appreciate, especially among the massive artistic, new age writing we get, which is nice, yet over done. I love this play, and I don't know why. I've never been to Atlanta. I am not Jewish. I have never met anyone exactly like any of the charactetrs. Yet, I feel this strong bond with each and every character. This means that the playwright has succeeded incredibly. To allow someone who is realistically so distant from the play, be so connected with it's material is true genius. Lala, Boo, Adolph, Joe, Sunny, Reba, and Peachy are now apart of my life. I love this play and some day hope to be in it. I cannot get enough of it. I read it all the time, and have only seen one production of it. I want to see multiple productions, because the one i saw was so good. I love this play and suggest everyone to read it and love it as much as i do.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Beauty of Ballyhoo
Comment: The Last Night of Ballyhoo is a powerful piece of drama. We see this powerful genius in its ability to draw laughter and tears from an audience in a single dizzy breath: who can forget Lala's burst of kleptomania, or Sunny's candle-lit Shabbat prayer in the final scene? I was blessed to take part in a community theater production of this play as Lala Levy; as a result of this opportunity, I and the cast came to know intimately the characters of Ballyhoo, and through them we lived the larger whole. From an actress' point of view I can tell you that the striking beauty, quick wit, and profound themes of this play can scarce be rivaled. However, whether one approaches this play as a reader, audience member, or actor, one will become more sensitized to the prejudices that ever haunt our race - the fear of "the other kind," be they separated from us by "the Elbe" or some less tangible distinction. Along with the characters of Ballyhoo we discover anew that there is no "us" and "them" - only "us."
Rating: 1
Summary: What's all the ballyhoo about?
Comment: Mediocre garbage by the same guy who wrote "Driving Miss Daisy". Yet another mediocre play about Southern jews. There is probably a great book or play to be written about jews in the South, but this isn't it
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Title: Betty's Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang ISBN: 0802136613 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Happy Days: A Play in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett ISBN: 0802130763 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: November, 1983 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: A Lie of the Mind: A Play in Three Acts by Sam Shepard ISBN: 0452263573 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: January, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh ISBN: 0822216647 Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Proof : A Play by David Auburn ISBN: 0571199976 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 05 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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