I Am a Camera
A Theatre, Plays, Drama book. I am a camera, with its shutter open, quite passive. Some day...
In the words of the Herald-Tribune, the play "looks at life in a tawdry Berlin rooming house of 1930 with a stringently photographic eye. For the most part, it concerns itself with the mercurial and irresponsible moods of a girl called Sally Bowles. When we first meet her, she is a creature of extravagant attitudes, given to parading her vices, enormously confident that she is going to take life in her stride. She is fond of describing herself as an 'extraordinary interesting person,' and she is vaguely disturbing. As we get to know her, as we watch her make frightened arrangements for an illegal operation, seize at the tinseled escape offered by a rich and worthless American playboy, attempt to rehabilitate herself and fail ludicrously, we are...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 90 pages
- ISBN: 9780822205456 / 822205459
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I am a camera, with its shutter open, quite passive. Some day all of this will have to be will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed. John Van Druten, I Am a Camera //
This play is kind of a wild ride, if you've read The Berlin Stories and seen Cabaret and have never been on an actual wild ride. It's more fascinating than it is good, when compared to those two. It's interesting to see the bridge, but on its own I wouldn't be particularly into this play. I enjoyed reading this a great deal, and I think it would be quite effective on stage in a rather traditional way, but as a translation of Isherwood's work it suffers by comparison. Goodbye to Berlin gives impression, atmosphere, vision, character -- but no answers, nothing simple, just people living, well or poorly, in the midst of... preferred reading Isherwood's Berlin Stories
