Night, Mother | The Artistic Merits of 'night, Mother
In this review, Gilman admires the artistic merits of 'night, Mother yet, in light of the play's subject matter, questions the accolades bestowed upon Norman's work.
The hyperbole machine is operating on Broadway again. Upon a modest two-character play with nothing flagrantly wrong with it—but not much to get excited about either—the reviewers have lavished nearly their whole stock of ecstatic adjectives, to which encomiums a Pulitzer Prize has just been added. Even before Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother reached New York City, Robert Brustein likened it to Long Day's Journey Into Night. (That Brustein's American Repertory Theater had given the play its premiere, in Boston, might have had something to do with that wild comparison.)...
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