Valparaiso: a Play in Two Acts - Book Review

Don DeLillo wrote very little for the theater. These are only two acts in which the couple composed by Michael and Livia is grappling with the interview-confession.

The press of applications and the insatiable greed of Delfina Treadweel journalist - his verbal eroticism - the two lead to catharsis of a relationship over. How to prove that the media fiction exposes the truth of conscience and matters of which they are fed.

That is a serious accident caused by a hangover of Michael through which the young son fell into a coma. Since then the two reorganize the report in the same habits as before, using the same irreplaceable regulation, which also includes a sexual compulsive, morning without kissing, but as mismatched. And this television feeds. "One minute we are assaulted in a room from our past. Every moment, you know. But what is this? How fits in our history, our psyche? The smallest touch.

Every moment is part of a whole. (...) A marriage is not made of individual episodes. I could live alone? No, I'd die of fear. I could live with another person? We had a moment of sex just before dawn. Without even a kiss. But we are not here for the kisses. My wife knows who I am? ".

Despite the height of questions of the contemporary themes, the play is a whole artificial and the presence of a classical choir to amplify the effects certainly not conducive to live.

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