https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/924850
I will definitely be there as I am in Connecticut. I am pretty excited, as I have been wanting to see a play but had trouble finding one that interested me.
Here is an awesome write up of it full of info and links to cast:
Here’s a link to a page where tickets are available:
http://www.AnthemthePlay.com/
I can’t wait to see how the billboard ad will look! Cost something like $15,000 to get the spot to advertise for the play, I helped in that, when I saw the posting about contributing to it in my FB feed.
I hope this play catches attention and will continue to be produced after NYC.
It’s up already! Here it is:
Has anyone seen it, or plan to see it?
I plan to see it.
Here’s a review of the play. Unlike some other reviews, it does not try to take on Ayn Rand, but deal with this play alone. Though he offers some positives, the reviewer is mostly down on the play. He ends thus:
“Anthem” is a powerful story in whatever form presented. However, while a book leaves it to the reader’s imagination to fill in the blanks, what’s offered on stage must be strongly envisioned from start to finish for it to really come together as something that can stand on its own, instead of being a weak imitation of the original.
Looks very impressive. Is it any chance they will make a DVD?
Anthem is closing in New York on November 3rd.
Looks very impressive. Is it any chance they will make a DVD?
An indiegogo campaign with eight days left has raised $725 of the $20,000 goal.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/documenting-ayn-rand-s-anthem-the-play/x/5116117
The indiegogo campaign has now raised $1160.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/documenting-ayn-rand-s-anthem-the-play/x/5116117
$3480
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/documenting-ayn-rand-s-anthem-the-play/x/5116117
Has anyone been to the New York production? Is anyone else planning to go?
I saw Anthem in New York on Wednesday the 30th and was quite disappointed. The problem is that the Anthem Ayn Rand wrote is an introspective fictional diary with little action, so it contains almost no material suited for the stage. In my opinion the playwright did not succeed in solving this problem. The main character, Equality 7-2521, narrates throughout most of the play, occasionally interacting with other characters in a scene, but I never felt that he fully abandoned the role of narrator. On page 74 of The Romantic Manifesto Rand wrote that “the introduction of a narrator into a stage play is…a breach of the theater’s basic principle, which demands that a story be dramatized, i.e., presented in action;” Anthem the Play fails to dramatize a story.
Despite my disappointment I’m glad that I attended the play, if only because my experience confirmed and demonstrated the importance of the theater’s basic principle cited by Rand.