tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21572303.post1612843610855492058..comments2023-10-29T07:11:13.921-07:00Comments on The Rational Feast: "Rock 'n' Roll"Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03139711818373541945noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21572303.post-15142679636283851652008-01-01T10:51:00.000-08:002008-01-01T10:51:00.000-08:00I think your criticisms are pretty much in line wi...I think your criticisms are pretty much in line with mine. Your issues with Jan seem to me to stem from the lack of menace I cited.<BR/><BR/>For me, the Syd Barrett stuff was symbolic of the "trickster" spirit of rock 'n' roll, which needed to weave through the play, which is why I think Stoppard put him there.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03139711818373541945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21572303.post-68559117677745164592008-01-01T10:33:00.000-08:002008-01-01T10:33:00.000-08:00You know, this just didn't move me at all. Maybe i...You know, this just didn't move me at all. Maybe it was too episodic, moving from one short scene to another, between England and Czechoslovakia. But I never really felt engaged by the characters or their stories. I never got a sense of the forces that made Max a Communist in the first place, or a real sense of what it was like for Jan to live under a totalitarian government. It was like a series of vignettes. And I didn't see how the little snippets of music before each scene fit what was coming next. And the whole Syd Barrett thing seemed superfluous. I was really looking forward to this, but I ended up being really disappointed.Estherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16076517542540421210noreply@blogger.com