Since we’ve never seen
it before, it was surprising to us that Porgy was a poor crippled man and Bess
was a drug addict, abused by 2 men in her life. At her lowest, Porgy takes Bess into his shack and takes
care of her. They eventually fall
in love and Bess starts to become respectable. But as the abusive men come back into her life, she turns
back to drugs and runs away with one of the men to New York. At the end, Porgy packs up his meager
belongings and hitches his way from Charleston’s Catfish Row to New York to
look for his Bess. Because “You is
my woman now”.
After all these years,
the play is more heartfelt and moving despite the frailties of the main
characters and how they dealt with the circumstances of life.
Very good and very
enjoyable. Loved it.