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re: Interesting...

Posted by: seeseveryshow 03:26 pm EDT 10/27/15
In reply to: Interesting... - charles1055 02:56 pm EDT 10/27/15

jesse21 gave it only two stars and called it a disappointment!


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re: Interesting...

Posted by: RDavidS 09:39 pm EDT 10/27/15
In reply to: re: Interesting... - seeseveryshow 03:26 pm EDT 10/27/15

He also got the location wrong and, in my opinion, missed the point of the play.


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Posted by: MikeR 03:39 pm EDT 10/27/15
In reply to: re: Interesting... - seeseveryshow 03:26 pm EDT 10/27/15

Well, if he's your barometer....

Charles Isherwood called it "blisteringly funny, bruisingly sad and altogether wonderful."

Jeremy Gerard says the play "inarguably establishes Karam as one of the most incisive and, sure, human playwrights at work today."

Jesse Green puts it in the category of "great plays" and calls it a "superb slice-of-life story" and "absolutely, relentlessly gripping."

David Rooney calls it a "beautiful, funny-sad and ultimately wrenching portrait of a troubled lower-middle-class Pennsylvania family."

And Matthew Murray says that it's "one of the can't-miss plays of the year."


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re: Interesting...

Posted by: seeseveryshow 04:22 pm EDT 10/27/15
In reply to: re: Interesting... - MikeR 03:39 pm EDT 10/27/15

I was just sayin'

You seem to have a lot of time on your hands.


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Posted by: MikeR 04:37 pm EDT 10/27/15
In reply to: re: Interesting... - seeseveryshow 04:22 pm EDT 10/27/15

Well, you seemed to be "sayin'" that an anonymous post on a message board carries more weight in making these kind of decisions than the actual critics. Or should carry more weight... not sure which. Both interpretations seemed kind of silly to me. So I took ten minutes to scan the actual reviews. Is that a lot of time? Didn't seem like it.


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re: Interesting...

Posted by: SuzanneR 04:21 pm EDT 10/27/15
In reply to: re: Interesting... - MikeR 03:39 pm EDT 10/27/15

That's the best you can do?

:)


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