James Wilson takes a look at The Seven Year Disappeare from The New Group:
With its use of deliberately over-amplified and disembodied voices, video close-ups, and shiny, modernist design, The New Group's production of the The Seven Year Disappear would seem to be better suited for a museum art installation than an Off-Broadway theater. Additionally, Jordan Seavey's play, which is currently running at New York's Signature Center, jumps back and forth in time, merges rudiments of conceptual performance art, and includes exaggerated and arch characters based on figures from the contemporary art world. Think Whitney Biennial meets the Wooster Group. Yet, at the center of this strangely absorbing and very smart play is a deeply moving and paradoxically conventional story of a mother and son. |
