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A Life

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Written by Adam Bock
Directed by Anne Kaurrman
Playwrights Horizons
November 26, 2016
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

There are times I want to use these blogs to become one giant spoiler. This is so true of this play! You think the play is going to stay in this very naturalistic world of “a life in the day.” and then the play and most significantly, the set, does a 180 and another 180 and quite literally another 180. I mean literally! Continue reading A Life

Homos or Everyone in America

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Written by Jordan Seavey
Directed by Mike Donahue
Labyrinth Theatre company
November 25, 2016
Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.

I have walked into many, many theatre and have seen directors play with small and big spaces, with water and light, with benches and bleachers, with rocking chairs and grass terracing. I have sat in circles and squares, been inside and outside of the playing area – – but have never walked into a theatre in this configuration. The room was VERY small – perhaps only 300 square feet. There were raw wood platforms haphazardly placed around poles, furnace flumes and supporting walls. THERE WAS NO STAGE. Continue reading Homos or Everyone in America

Heisenberg

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Written by Simon Stephens
Directed by Mark Brokaw
Manhattan Theatre Club
October 15, 2016
Production website
💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.

This play just smoked!  It was the real thing!  From the first moment when the stage manager came out to give us our cell phone shaming, and the two actors came out to set up their chairs and looked at each other, I knew this thing was going to cook! Continue reading Heisenberg