“Putting aside the various issues of the Perón regime for one moment” — but the trouble is you *can’t* put them aside, and the play knows that and leans into it. Yes, Eva was incredibly charismatic, and knew exactly what to say to get people to support her (and I think the show demonstrates that, though perhaps does rely a bit too much on Zegler’s natural charisma for it). But her and her husband were also tyrants and dictators who destroyed the country so badly that it’s still recovering from it.
You say “She was ADORED by the Argentinian people, she must have been so charismatic, so intelligent, so strategically brilliant” — you could arguably say something similar about Trump and Americans, but it’d be odd to expect a play about Trump to be sympathetic to him because of that!
(FWIW I also didn’t think this was as incredible as others did! Just find this line of criticism a bit odd.)
“Putting aside the various issues of the Perón regime for one moment” — but the trouble is you *can’t* put them aside, and the play knows that and leans into it. Yes, Eva was incredibly charismatic, and knew exactly what to say to get people to support her (and I think the show demonstrates that, though perhaps does rely a bit too much on Zegler’s natural charisma for it). But her and her husband were also tyrants and dictators who destroyed the country so badly that it’s still recovering from it.
You say “She was ADORED by the Argentinian people, she must have been so charismatic, so intelligent, so strategically brilliant” — you could arguably say something similar about Trump and Americans, but it’d be odd to expect a play about Trump to be sympathetic to him because of that!
(FWIW I also didn’t think this was as incredible as others did! Just find this line of criticism a bit odd.)