Marvin S Room Play Review

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Marvin s room play review.

There is a line of dialogue that comes late in marvin s room and contains the key to the whole film. Janeane garofalo and lili taylor play estranged sisters reunited by a medical emergency in the broadway debut of. Reviews marvin s room scott mcpherson s drama desk award winning play about finding laughter in the midst of illness makes its broadway debut. The set up of scott mcpherson s 1991 play marvin s room makes it sound like the kind of maudlin mopey tearjerker you d quickly flip past after encountering it on the hallmark channel.

Scott mcpherson s marvin s room may sound from that description like a certain kind of tv movie of the week. Marvin s room is a play by the american writer scott mcpherson. But this pained yet comforting play cuts its sentiment with laughing into the. It is spoken by a woman who has put her life on hold for years to care for a father who has been dying for 20 years slowly so that i won t miss anything has her life been wasted.

Marvin s room premiered at the goodman theatre studio in chicago in 1990 directed by david petrarca. In marvin s room who will care for the caregiver. It tells the story of bessie and her estranged sister lee who confront a family crisis. In the play.