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Saint Frances of Hollywood

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I should have heeded the other reviewer's "caveat emptor" -- wondered if a play would be as interesting as the film (or the long-missed, never available made-for-television movie) but boy, was this play horrible. Why is it these junk authors who can't write for crap get their work published, their plays produced (and filmed)? Any metaphor or allegory was lost on me; just Francis sitting around yelling and swearing with a blank bleating cast supposed to be symbolizing the institutions, government, film industries and malevolent people who exploited and abused her, And the ending -- ! The whole work sounded like that of a precocious high school girl with just-developing writing talent trying herself out, but past the teenage sleaze language, this play is hopeless, especially with its Britishy Canadian spelling and slang, which is contemporary and unfathomable to 1940's United States. I don't think any author can really do that poor Francis Farmer's suffering life justice, but if this play is the rewritten revision at the behest of this author's critics kindly telling her "what was wrong with it," I'd hate to see the first draft.

This goes into the bin to be traded at the next used book swap in our neighborhood.

THIS BOOK WHICH I EXPECTED TO BE A BIOGRAPHY TURNED OUT TO BE SOME PLAY THAT WAS A TOTAL WASTE OF MY TIME. ALL I CAN SAY IS DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY ON THIS BOOK. IT'S A SHAME THERE IS NOT A ZERO STAR RATING!