Go Back to Where You Are is awful.
Go Back to Where You Are is awful.
jbm2
Broadway Star Joined: 3/26/11
#1Go Back to Where You Are is awful.
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:55am
I saw this show tonight and was SO disappointed. Everything thing I have read and heard about this show (NYTIMES critics pick) was positive. I could not disagree more. I thought it was awful. The only good thing about it was that it was only 70 mins long.
I want my night back..there are so many shows to see and I spent my night with this DUD!
gravity87
Featured Actor Joined: 8/4/04
#2Go Back to Where You Are is awful.
Posted: 4/17/11 at 1:13amCouln't agree more! What a waste of time, talent, and money. I'm there are a number of far more deserving works worthy of Playwrights' resourses.
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#2Go Back to Where You Are is awful.
Posted: 4/17/11 at 1:25amI adore David Greenspan and found the show to be insufferable. I saw it right before the reviews came out, and was astonished it got such a positive response. I can't imagine the word of mouth on it is any good. In the busiest theatre month of the year, who honestly is going to tell their friends to go see it?
#3Go Back to Where You Are is awful.
Posted: 4/17/11 at 2:02am
YOU ALL ARE EITHER F*CKING CRAZY.... or just dumb. lol. This is the most intelligent new play in NYC right now (But I haven't seen War Horse yet... so I can't compare that.)
If you didn't like it you must not have gotten it. That makes me think the piece is EVEN MORE important that I thought it was. Didn't you get that it was about a bunch of playwrights and playwright teachers, and the narrative was spoken as if a playwright-teacher was telling the class when certain points of action should take place in the play???? Ex.) "This is the part where I make an important phone call."
Whenever something broke the regular action or time line of the story... (time travel) we were informed by an actor saying "There is no chronology" ...... it was put out there easily for us to understand. The play wasn't about the actual story. The playwright was trying to say that the plot points in a play are insignificant, it's the ideas and insight about life that are important. I thought the play did a wonderful job of setting that up with the opening monologue about how "this is a weird play... I'm one of the characters in this play." Great way to suspend our disbelief.
The play was about themes, NOT plot. There WAS a plot though, taken right out of a "how to write a play" manual, and on purpose at that. It followed Checkov quite nicely, and borrowed archetypes and stock characters from classic theatre. So smart, and really, really, really moving. I cried and so did my friend. We loved it, and have been raving about it to everyone.
Go see the play for yourselves.... and make your own judgments.
jbm2
Broadway Star Joined: 3/26/11
#4Go Back to Where You Are is awful.
Posted: 4/17/11 at 2:18am
I went and saw this for myself.
I totally got it! I just didn't like it...at all
Updated On: 5/6/11 at 02:18 AM
jbm2
Broadway Star Joined: 3/26/11
#5Go Back to Where You Are is awful.
Posted: 5/6/11 at 10:58pmI do believe it was the worst show I have seen in NYC....
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#7Go Back to Where You Are is awful.
Posted: 5/6/11 at 11:22pmI agree with everyone who found this show awful.
jbm2
Broadway Star Joined: 3/26/11
#8Go Back to Where You Are is awful.
Posted: 5/6/11 at 11:23pm
agreed.... how this got a NY Times theater pick is beyond me.
I feel like I can never trust the times again.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#9Go Back to Where You Are is awful.
Posted: 5/6/11 at 11:41pm
"I feel like I can never trust the times again."
I'm sorry you had to learn this lesson in this painful way. But better late than never.
It's one I learned many, many years ago.
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