Word: mcnallyã
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...perfect live bootleg of a favorite song offers welcome procrastination from life’s responsibilities. Why one becomes so obsessed with certain artists and devotes hours to the pursuit of their music is a complicated affair to dissect. But Mendy, one of the characters in Terrence McNally??€™s The Lisbon Traviata, offers some insight when he explains his obsession with Maria Callas: “Opera doesn’t reject me, the real world does...
...McNally??€™s play lacks a feel-good ending—it is, in fact, not a feel-good piece. Rather, McNally has constructed a provocative play about the pain of living in a world where the greatest joy is derived from that which is not real. Though art may be transcendant, it cannot alone fulfill one’s existence: Those who insist on escaping the grittiness of life come eventually to recognize the agonizing depth of the divide...