This play seems to have become a parody of itself.
That's why this play for us can seem nine hours long.
Whenever I left town this month, the play seemed to follow me.
So even though the story was written near the beginning of the century, the play seems to me to be very much a modern one.
The play seems not to have been performed in the 20th century.
To be crude, the noise the play made seemed very even.
His plays seem like games that the audience has to put up with rather than experiences they can share.
For these reasons the play does not seem to have a good dramatic subject.
In fact, his play seems to be a traditional Jewish family drama.
Precious little else will, and the play, such as it is, seems to be building to that one scene.