What is this poster from in the background of “The Goodbye Girl?”
December 28, 2022 7:35 PM Subscribe
I love “The Goodbye Girl” and the red and white poster in the background of this scene always catches my eye. Anyone know what it is? My guess is some theatrical production? This has been rolling around in my mind for years!
Best answer: It's for the play "Poor Murderer".
posted by xxx9038709992203 at 9:18 PM on December 28, 2022 [10 favorites]
posted by xxx9038709992203 at 9:18 PM on December 28, 2022 [10 favorites]
Wow- I have never heard of this play but it sounds amazing! Here' s the Playbill.
"What is illusion and what reality? What is play‐acting and what is life? The questions are very pertinently put by the Czech playwright Pavel Kohout in his play “Poor Murderer,” which opened last night at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.
It is a strange, dazzling and intellectual play that zigzags across the stage and ricochets across the mind. it is set in the great hall of the St. Elizabeth Institute for Nervous Disorders in St. Petersburg in 1900. An actor has been playing Hamlet and in the course of a performance imagines he has killed Polonius. Really killed him. Dead. Or has he?
The actor is incarcerated in this mental hospital, and during the course of a psychodrama, some kind of psychiatrist's abreaction, his motives and impressions are played out. The actors in the company, invited by a sympathetic professor, try to help this modern hero who is “seemingly insane but far saner than anyone around him.”
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 4:42 AM on December 29, 2022 [4 favorites]
"What is illusion and what reality? What is play‐acting and what is life? The questions are very pertinently put by the Czech playwright Pavel Kohout in his play “Poor Murderer,” which opened last night at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.
It is a strange, dazzling and intellectual play that zigzags across the stage and ricochets across the mind. it is set in the great hall of the St. Elizabeth Institute for Nervous Disorders in St. Petersburg in 1900. An actor has been playing Hamlet and in the course of a performance imagines he has killed Polonius. Really killed him. Dead. Or has he?
The actor is incarcerated in this mental hospital, and during the course of a psychodrama, some kind of psychiatrist's abreaction, his motives and impressions are played out. The actors in the company, invited by a sympathetic professor, try to help this modern hero who is “seemingly insane but far saner than anyone around him.”
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 4:42 AM on December 29, 2022 [4 favorites]
Response by poster: MY MIND IS AT EASE. Thank you!!!
posted by stefnet at 5:14 AM on December 29, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by stefnet at 5:14 AM on December 29, 2022 [1 favorite]
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posted by BlahLaLa at 8:41 PM on December 28, 2022 [4 favorites]