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[snugs45.livejournal.com]

Thanks to Amy for all her hard work.
Here's another review (had to make a separate post kept getting spam message).

http://www.vulture.com/2016/02/theater-review-prodigal-son.html

There is this interesting bit at near the bottom:

Robert Sean Leonard as Hoffman does as much as possible with a character who doesn’t make much sense to us because Shanley, still seeing his teacher through a teenager’s eyes, cannot make sense of him either. That being the case, and knowing from the play that Hoffman, before he died, specifically asked Shanley not to write about him, I wonder whether this material was ill served, not just theatrically but morally, by its fully autobiographical treatment

I find it frustrating that the writer makes a statement and then leaves it hanging for us to contemplate any possible reasons. I wonder if those who've seen the play have any thoughts on this?

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[snugs45.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about the play but I would probably want to see it and judge for myself. Generally RSL has received very good reviews and I do think it's a part that suits his character. I wonder if John Shanley shared more than we know with him about Hoffman? Let us know if you decide to go and see it.

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I expected RSL to get good reviews. Not because he's amazing... (he is!) but because it seems a character he could do in his sleep. It doesn't seem a very exciting roll for him to play. (Especially after playing Atticus, Henry Higgins, King Arthur, Hamlet in recent times!)