{"id":30123,"date":"2010-11-14T16:45:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T21:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=30123"},"modified":"2015-06-25T08:35:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T12:35:19","slug":"i-am-a-sick-man-i-am-a-wicked-man-underground-man-hits-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=30123","title":{"rendered":"“I Am A Sick Man. I Am A Wicked Man.” Underground Man Hits Youtube"},"content":{"rendered":"

A review of Yale Rep’s production of Notes from Underground<\/i><\/a> which sounds absolutely fascinating. If that crazy narcissistic character were alive today, he would most definitely have a Youtube channel, and I bet it would be quite popular. <\/p>\n

From the review:<\/p>\n

Let me confess that the Underground Man has been a close personal (and cautionary) friend of mine since I first encountered him as a teenager, and it would be impossible for any performance to match the portrait I have of him in my mind. Looking and acting like a hybrid of Peter Lorre and Peter Ustinov, Mr. [Bill] Camp is not quite my idea of the Underground Man. He is perhaps too extravagant of gesture and presence for someone who believes he is destined to invisibility.<\/p>\n

But Mr. Camp is also one of the bravest, smartest and most physically intense actors in New York. With a voice that curls at the edges in contempt and a face that holds a far-reaching scale of ambivalence in one expression, he commands our attention through what is largely a sustained monologue. And in the scenes that trace his character\u2019s encounter with a prostitute (the excellent Merritt Janson), he combines naturalistic and expressionist techniques to deliver a precise and painful anatomy of one man\u2019s fully willed self-humiliation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fantastic! I am so busy right now. But I would love to get to see this. I read Notes from Underground<\/a>\"\"<\/i> this summer on the family vacation, and Siobhan and her boyfriend Ben had just read it together, so it was so fun to have them to talk to about it. It was fresh in their minds. Ben sent me the heads-up of this review. It sounds kind of brilliant, actually. I would love to see it.<\/p>\n

Here is my post on the book itself.<\/a><\/p>\n

And go check out the review<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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