PRIMO reviews

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:54pm

Broadway.com is a rave:

"It is impossible to imagine anyone but Antony Sher performing Primo, his masterful adaptation of Primo Levi's Holocaust memoir If This Is a Man. (A moot point, as it turns out: The Levi estate has forbidden anyone but Sher to perform it.) Along with director Richard Wilson, this superb actor has stripped the story of any filigrees; adorned only by devastatingly effective lighting (by Paul Pyant and David Howe) and sound design (by Rich Walsh), Primo has turned one of the 20th century's towering memoirs into a lesson in achieving theatrical greatness through simplicity. Sher is lucky to have the words of Levi, whose empathic voice makes him an accessible, even ingratiating guide to hell. And we are lucky to have them both."
http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=514958

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 7:11pm

Talkinbroadway.com is mixed:
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:22pm

Theatermania.com:
http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/6319

[Liz_Bennet]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:52pm

Kuchwara (AP) is very positive

[rclocalz]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 10:53pm

Oooh, I wanna see this!

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:46am

Brantley is very positive:
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/07/12/theater/reviews/12prim.html?

[RentLondon]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 7:41am

I saw Primo in London at the begining of the year. I was expecting it to be more powerful than it was but still very moving and fanstastic performance. When I was there Sir Ian McKellen was there making out with a guy. Not something you see at the theatre every day.

[ken8631]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 8:32am

Really hvae no desire to see this. Sounds depressing. Even with free tickets.

[Teeny Todd]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 10:10am

Antony Sher is amazing though. I'd love to see it.