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NEW - THE WAYSIDE MOTOR INN - Talkin' Broadway's Review

Posted by:	T.B._Admin. 08:00 pm EDT 09/04/14

Matthew Murray takes a look at The Wayside Motor Inn: Walk into the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center for Signature's new production of A.R. Gurney's The Wayside Motor Inn, and you're immediately thrust into institutional hopelessness. As the title suggests, this outside-of-Boston stop is a next-to-nowhere motel, a dilapidated crossroads, and looks it: two ultra-flat double beds crowned with nondescript headboards and covered with tacky orange bedspreads, ugly crosshatch wallpaper, and peeling blaster in the outer bathroom. Life, any reasonable appraisal will tell you, cannot possibly live here. But within seconds of the play beginning, and for every stitch of the two hours to follow, this outwardly dreary locale is flooded with nothing but. . . .
Link	THE WAYSIDE MOTOR INN Review




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