"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot"
"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot"
"The Last Days of Judas Iscariot"#0
Posted: 2/23/05 at 5:40pmI am very very intrigued by this play, and everything I've read on it sounds very interesting. Plus, I usually love everything at The Public. However, I'm sorry if this has been posted here or not, but has anyone here seen it? Would you reccomend it? Also, do you know if the Pubic (or just this show) has a student rush policy? Thanks in advance.
re: 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot'#1
Posted: 2/23/05 at 6:07pmanyone? bump
re: 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot'#2
Posted: 2/23/05 at 6:21pm
It's been reworked a lot in the last week, but here's what I thought then (scroll down the thread):
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=813899#814192
re: 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot'#3
Posted: 2/23/05 at 8:25pmIt just got an extension through April 3...not bad before opening.
re: 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot'#4
Posted: 2/23/05 at 8:25pmYea, I read that I just wanted to know if they offered student tickets.
re: 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot'#5
Posted: 3/3/05 at 3:25am
The Times is mixed:
""The Last Days of Judas Iscariot," which opened last night at the Public Theater in a production from the Labyrinth Theater Company, shares many of the traits that have made Mr. Guirgis a playwright to reckon with in recent years: a fierce and questing mind that refuses to settle for glib answers, a gift for identifying with life's losers and an unforced eloquence that finds the poetry in lowdown street talk.
What the show lacks, which Mr. Guirgis could be relied upon to deliver in the past, are characters that pulse with personalities all their own. The colorful vernacular speech, studded with obscenities and brand names, and flashy performances, steeped in Frank Capraesque whimsy, can't disguise the impression that the play is a heavily footnoted position paper on a big, big subject."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/theater/reviews/03juda.html
re: 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot'#6
Posted: 3/3/05 at 3:27am
Broadway.com -- also mixed:
"Stephen Adly Guirgis is one of the most electrifying playwrights to hit the stage in 20 years, and he may well have a profane, piercing masterpiece somewhere deep inside The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. All it needs is several workshops and a director willing to dig it out. As it stands now, Guirgis has written the theatrical equivalent of a prize student's dog-eared theology syllabus, with marvelous theories scribbled in every margin and not a single fully fleshed-out thought to be found. It is perhaps the most frustrating play in town."
http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=507564
re: 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot'#7
Posted: 3/3/05 at 3:30am
Theatremania -- mixed, but a bit more positive:
"The ambitious production, co-presented by LAByrinth Theater Company and The Public Theater, has much to recommend it. It's witty, irreverent, epic in scope, and it showcases several outstanding performances; yet it also features a number of weaker actors, has a sprawling narrative that doesn't quite come together, and is in serious need of editing."
http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/5718
re: 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot'#8
Posted: 3/3/05 at 3:34am
NY Post -- Mostly Negative:
" PLAYWRIGHTS grappling with serious philosophical issues these days are few and far between, and should be encouraged. But they make it hard when they present their ideas via broad-sketch comedy.
The latest example is "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot," an unwieldy satire from the talented playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis ("Our Lady of 121st Street"), directed by the equally talented Philip Seymour Hoffman............
Diverging greatly in style from the playwright's earlier, intensely naturalistic plays, the work is only sporadically effective in its attempt to blend philosophizing with vaudeville-style antics, and director Hoffman's flashy production is unable to lend coherency to the proceedings."
Examining the concept of divine forgiveness through the fate of the title character, the play strains so hard for irreverence that it dilutes its message in a sea of comic shtick. "
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/22235.htm
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