Avian vs Shavian

Rating: 7/10 (7 January 2015)

There's a certain element of smoke and mirrors at work here, especially amongst the commenters who would read significance into Little Bo Peep. An entry like this may be best judged on what is in front of us - group of actors attempting to mount a play on Broadway - than by overloading it with implied 'significance' by paying too much attention to events that occurred 1) in the past, 2)offscreen, like the fact that the actor who actually adapted a story by Raymond Carver into a play, is also bankrolling, producing, directing and playing a leading role, was once - some two decades earlier - celebrated for playing the leading role in an internationally successful film entitled Birdman, since when he has fallen into neglect and is now attempting to 1) restore himself by resurrecting his career or 2) reinvent himself as a triple-threat. The Academic-Psued axis is also having a lot of fun reminding anyone who cares to listen that the real actor playing the eponymous Birdman, Michael Keaton once enjoyed a very similar success to the fictional character he is now portraying when he himself (Keaton) successfully portrayed Batman, parlayed the role to international stardom and subsequently fell from grace. Like the man said, it's only a movie, Ingrid.