Comments on The Bluest Door

I felt a similar way about what the play seems to end up saying. I'm glad Lewis has confronted his family's past and faced his demons and whatnot, but the guy's clearly an intellectual. He likes philosophy, he likes Bach. The way the play presents it, it's like he gets an authenticity makeover which is gonna make everything better. It felt like Barfield ducked, there.

I have not seen this play yet but maybe he chooses both in the end. The final scence shows him embracing his African roots yet he probably still enjoys Bach. Why can't he have both?

I saw the play last night, thought it was well written and acted and asked some questions we all face: "Who am I?", "Why am I who I am?" and "Now what?"

I'd like to know if there's a connection between the writer, Tanya Barfield and British author Owen Barfield (1898-1997) who wrote: "In the common words we use everyday, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the couriers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty."