Review: The cool thing about Sharr White’s intriguing and rather haunting Broadway play “Pictures From Home' is that it actually gives the family enough ammunition to fight back.
Danny Burstein , Zoë Wanamaker , and Nathan Lane in"Pictures From Home" on Broadway at Studio 54.
The commercially produced black comedy, which opened Thursday at Studio 54 in New York under the direction of Bartlett Sher, is drawn from the work of the photographer Larry Sultan , who in the 1980s embarked on a project to photograph and interview his aging parents going about their normal lives.Sultan’s actual photographs provide a backdrop to the show. He had wanted to record his parents and write about them over time, including exploring his own evolving relationship with them.
In their minds, he keeps making them look bad. And, in fact he does. He wants to sell his work and well knows that will require a touch of 1980s American gothic. But Irving doesn’t just complain; he rightly points out that Larry’s award-worthy photos are just as artificial, just as posed, pompous lighting and all, albeit with opposite aims.Advertisement
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