Christopher Hampton
Birth date: January 26, 1946
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All but the last piece, "Life X 3", are worth reading. I especially enjoyed "Conversations After a Burial". I do prefer the novels (or memoir) of Yasmina Reza and look forward, eagerly, for more translations forthcoming.
As much as I love Yasmina Reza I hated this play. A few years ago I made a vow to never sit through something like this again. I have already done it enough times prior to my attempt at reading this pitiful piece of work, if indeed I should even grace this shit with a term as high as this. A whiny ...
I wasn't sure about this one until near the end when I decided I liked it very much. I believe a subsequent reading of ti would most likely result in an added star. But who knows? Not sure I will have the time for that. So much reading and so little time. But Reza certainly is a charm.
Not the best play I have ever read, but certainly better than most. I am a big fan of Yasmina Reza's fiction and her memoir, but not so much this first play I have read by her. I will continue on and read more. I do like her dialogue but "Art" seemed a little forced to me at times.
I think I'll just have to accept that Yasmina Reza isn't for me. Like The God of Carnage, I found "Art" to be an ultimately unsatisfying play. There was a lot of sound and fury that came to a rushed conclusion that resolved little of the chaos that makes up the play. Many of the ideas and conflicts ...
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