{"id":12475,"date":"2009-10-21T11:49:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/10\/21\/12475.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:52:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:52:49","slug":"book-report-lost-in-yonkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2009\/10\/21\/book-report-lost-in-yonkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Lost in Yonkers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So. Do y'all remember back when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2009\/08\/05\/12296.html\">Your Humble Blogger was auditioning for three plays at once<\/a>? No? That wasn't even three months ago! I mean. If y'all aren't going to pay attention&#8230;\n<p>Anyway, I did read all three of the plays, and I compared and contrasted them, each with the others, but I never wrote Book Reports on them. That's how far behind I am on my Book Reports.\n<p>Well, and the first of the ones I read, I'm pretty sure, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samuelfrench.com\/store\/product_info.php\/products_id\/1040\">Lost in Yonkers<\/a>, a late-ish Neil Simon that won awards and all, but which left me mostly <I>meh<\/i>. It's clearly a terrific part for a woman&#8212;Bella, I mean, the kindhearted &#8216;simple' woman who ultimately confronts the Monstrous Mother, who is also a good part. But I'm a little bored by the Monstrous Mother thing altogether at this point, and the use of developmental disability or mental illness as a drama-heightener always seems a little cheap. I mean, it can be done well, and I don't think that Mr. Simon completely screws the proverbial, but my initial reaction is <I>cheap<\/i>, and frankly there isn't anything in the play to bring it back into the win column.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger starts catching up, from a long way behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18898,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions\/18898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}