Posted by Kim on February 23, 2009
Jazzyness
When you think of a play called “The Jazz Age” you would expect that there would be jazz involved in the show somehow. But, alas, titles deceive sometimes. Instead, this show is about F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda, and Ernest Hemingway. It purports to be an account or a microstory of the 1920s, showing the “lost generation” and so on. But it’s almost too focused on the little things. A lot of the old stories are recycled, some of them wrong, and it’s kind of tough to see where the 1920s are hidden in there. The story of Fitzgerald and his odd interest in Hemingway, which he didn’t really respond to. But that isn’t all that instructive in the history of the time. It is predictable and not that great. Next time, guys!