Response to Loose Knit (Blog #10)

Bob was actually portrayed as an Asian in the San Jose production.

My favorite moment in Loose Knit, was when Bob was introduced for the first time in the play. As soon as he entered the stage, his first line was, "Excuse me ladies, penis coming through!". I thought this to be extremely hilarious and it helped me enjoy the rest of the play. Another part of the play I enjoyed very much was every time Miles said "I'm sorry, did I pull a nerve?". I thought that this was funny because he said that exact line to each of Liz's friends: Gina, Paula, and Margie, whom she had set up dinner dates with.

Bob and Liz (not the San Jose State production). I enjoyed Bob's character, he was a man of lust and to live in the moment. He often talked about how boring life was once you settle down.

I wasn't pleased too much about Theresa Rebeck's representation of sexual and marriage. I thought that it would have been more appropriate if Bob had an affair with Gina, Paula, or Margie, if not all of them. But in a way that type of scandal is what made Rebeck's play stand out. I was shocked and a little bit disgusted that Lily knew that her own sister was having an affair with her husband, yet she had no immediate action. I thought it was very strange that she would interrupt any thing that would lead to the conversation about Liz and Bob's affair. I also did not like Gina's role in the play. I thought that she should have been the perfect one of the knitting club, to become a role model so that the play would have a positive character to find direction and wisdom. Instead she was losing her mind, knitting 24/7 all day, everyday. 

The layers of knitting material represent all the knitting that Gina did because she wasn't keeping track of her life after she lost her job. She kept knitting and knitting and making huge amounts of clothing which she later started a business with the help from Margie.

I enjoyed the entire play, but the scene that I liked the least was when Mile's found out that Liz had planned to stand him up on the second date. I thought that he wasn't that bad of a guy and deserved to be with her because had won her and she seemed interest in him also (or at least his possessions). I also didn't like how Rebeck portrayed Miles almost like a "bad guy" and made him seem really mean to each of Liz's friends and sister. I believed he was just a different character with a different personality, though he was a bit strange which everyone would agree.