La Dame Aux Camelias is good practice for language learners. And that's about it.

The title that belongs to a novel and a theatre play by the same author, which allows for comparisons of style and quality.

I wouldn't go as far as to say that the play is slow, but it can't be denied that it is, ultimately, an adaptation, rather than an original piece. The acts are more like a collage of important scenes as opposed to a cohesive play. The first scene is a supper scene: gossip, pleasantries, recollections - it is a waste of time.

The sharp dialogue and characterization and action are absent in an initial discussion that does well in a novel, as a means to set a specific atmosphere, but in this type of play the actors impose an atmosphere.

It's slow, making it feel much longer, and, with the exception of the last two acts, boring.