An invitation to streaming appeared unexpectedly in an email offer. Leapt at the chance: a streaming of the Glass Menagerie* in only two hours time! Ordered ticket. How could it be other than wonderful: starring: Isabelle Huppert, directed by Ivo van Hove in a second directorial effort for Théâtre de l’Odéon in Paris. Full-disclosure: I have seen every Broadway play Ivo van Hove has directed. All of my experienced and accomplished actor friends find his interruptions beyond reproach. I have yet to understand his appeal. Apparently my lack of something. Well, this was an experience: lots of hurry & flurry by Huppert; lots of vocal utterances without nuance, a few actual script changes resulting in alternative actions, a suitor of indeterminate age and more ‘actions’ you have to have seen to believe. To say nothing of the staging. A diversion it was, an adventure of sorts and of course the price was right.
*La Ménagerie de verre.