I found the first two scenes interesting and was relatively into the play for the first half-hour. From there, as each scene became nothing more than a variation on the same theme, it began to drag. The last twenty minutes or so were a tough sit. The acting is good across the board, even though none of the characters are particularly well-defined (especially the women, though). Perhaps this might have worked better in a small Off-Broadway theatre, but it feels too small and too strange for the main stem. Several walk-outs last night.
To the person who asked about rush: was told by the box office that rush seats are, and will always be, partial-view. I passed them up and went to TKTS instead, and got a good orchestra seat.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 3/20/14 at 08:48 AM
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