MOSCOW TIMES/Theater/John Freedman:Ivan Vyrypayevs dramatization of Grace and Grit at Praktika Theater is not the usual theatrical celebration, thats for sure. Although it is, without a doubt, a celebration of life. The audience at the performance I attended barely mustered enough applause to bring the actors back on stage for a curtain call. Surely that was due in part to the fact that not everyone was in tune with this difficult and starkly told tale. But it was also because applause seemed to be a totally inadequate, even improper, response. Grace and Grit is a memoir and meditation written by American philosopher Ken Wilber on the basis of a diary kept by his wife Treya Wilber as she died of cancer over a five-year period in the 1980s.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:59:19 +0000