Wallace Shawn’s ‘What We Did Before Our Moth Days’ Is Purgatory Done Right
📖 Full Retelling
The playwright and his collaborator André Gregory are together again, delivering a sumptuous set of interlinked monologues about life, death and betrayal.
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Back in January, in a basement in the East Village — the venue, usefully, is called the East Village Basement — the actor-playwright Wallace Shawn and the director André Gregory had dinner. They talked about art and humanity and Gregory’s theatrical and spiritual experiments, some of which approached Dionysiac proportions. Their conversation was familiar to many of us eavesdropping on their corner banquette: As the two moved from soup to dessert, they said to each other just what they’d said in 1981, when Louis Malle recorded their discussion in his film “My Dinner With André.”
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