A review by noirla1939
Beat Generation: The Lost Work by Jack Kerouac

3.0

This'll be a short review. The bottom line is that the play is not structured. Sure, it has three acts, but there's no plot, no conflict, no character development. It's just a bunch of guys talking, which is probably how Kerouac intended. It's unconventional. I just wish I was able to follow what the characters were talking about because the topics of conversation were interesting, ranging from Buddhism to karma to horse racing to life. At the end of the day, I interpreted the play to be about the friendship these days have in spite of the world and life they lead. That they can have a calm and civil discussion about these things is nice. I enjoyed the last couple pages of the play because I felt that I connected with the characters. It's just too bad I couldn't understand them from the beginning.