Frank's Home by Richard Nelson directed by Robert Falls at The Goodman. World premier.
...about Chicago architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his mentor Louis Sullivan.
Damn. I'm just now catching my breath after the mad dash at work. Peter Weller was Frank Lloyd Wright and Harris Yulin was Louis Sullivan. Closed yesterday. Time flew. Never had a moment. I didn't finish working before 8PM more than a few evenings these past few weeks.
Chris Jones of The Chicago Tribune said...
"And this isn't just a play about Wright — played, incidentally, with sizzlingly amoral articulation by the polyphonic actor Peter Weller... ...Sullivan's inglorious fate — a one-room apartment, a shaking hand at the drafting table, little work or contemporary recognition in Chicago — heightens the pathos. Yulin plays Sullivan as a defeated architectural colossus overwhelmed by sadness. And in Falls' production, this contrasts beautifully with Weller's frenetic verbal energy. Sullivan and Wright sit in their chairs for long stretches, alternately railing against the world and bantering with it, like the two tramps in "Waiting for Godot."..."
Now it's off to Playwrights Horizons in NYC. Chicago was the place to see it though. Where the two architects built our urban landscape. Damn.
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Friends of mine did see it, and they enjoyed it a lot.....I had never heard of it though, and now it's too late : -(
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