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THE OPEN HOUSE (Possible Spoiler)

Posted by:	sergius 12:24 am EDT 03/16/14

Who hasn't sometimes wished that they could disappear from their family or, better yet, that they could disappear their family? Will Eno has managed to depict such a vanishing act with droll and mournful aplomb in THE OPEN HOUSE. The first half of the play depicts the family that will soon be gone. But maybe not. I've only seen one other of his plays, but I have a favorable impression so far. If the family dysfunction is laid on on really, really thick at first--which is perplexing and grows wearisome--there's a narrative shift--innovation really--that enlarges the dysfunction into a more universal despair. This play is structurally impressive not least because it accomplishes its narrative contrivances plausibly. Eno's characters are all depressives; they're sad because they can't stop wishing for more. If more arrives--as THE OPEN HOUSE suggests is possible--less is always at its heels.

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