Ho Chi Minh play in NYC
Dan Duffy <dduffy@email.unc.edu>
date Dec 8, 2006 10:41 AM
subject [Vsg] Ho Chi Minh play in NYC
Today's NYT has a review on page B2 by Charlese Isherwood of "Two
September" by Marc Wellman, illustrated with a photo of Arthur Acuna as
Ho looking very downtown with shaved head and trimmed goatee.
I don't know the play or the playwright. The reviewer's take is that he
is a man of wit with a Manhattan following who now has done a pedestrian
job telling a story of national interest.
The play follows the socialist and popular author Josephine Herbst in
one plot, and two Deer Team members, Ho, and Bao Dai in another. The
reviewer's summary, "a learned historical tableau that is dangerously
low on theatrical vitality" reminds me of a play also set in Ha Noi at
that time that I saw in Paris six years ago, which followed Phillipe
DeVillers' work wonderfully.
We can't all be Bert Brecht. Wish I could run up there and see it: at
the Flea Theater, 41 White Street, through Dec 16, tel. 212-352-3101.