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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:40:50 +0530
Entertainment
THEATER REVIEW
An architect's home life built as a house of cards
BY LINDA WINER
Newsday Staff Writer
January 31, 2007
Art isn't easy. Imagine the burden for a visionary architect, who
doesn't merely have to snare the commission and make the beauty. Then
people dare to live in one of his objects, name it after themselves and
expect the roof not to leak.
We ponder a bit of that almost superhuman dilemma in "Frank's Home," the
Richard Nelson drama about Frank Lloyd Wright that opened last night at
Playwrights Horizons. What we do not feel, alas, is more than mildly
engaged. This is not to imply that Peter Weller gives anything less than
a dazzling turn as Wright, or that Nelson - the most-produced writer at
Playwrights Horizons - could be unintelligent even if somebody
commissioned him to be.
The play is less about Wright the artist than about Wright, at 56, the
magnetic, defective, absentee father in yet another carping,
dysfunctional family. Wounded adult children, needy colleagues and a
clingy morphine-addled mistress feel incidental to the fascinating
structure of the fellow created with such singularity by Weller and Nelson.
cont'd....
http://www.amny.com/entertainment/ny-etfrank5072305jan31,0,6844606.story?coll=am-ent-headlines