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| NEW - AFTER THE BLAST - Talkin' Broadway's Review | |
| Posted by: T.B._Admin. 10:00 pm EDT 10/23/17 | |
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| Jose Solís takes a look at After the Blast: In the future, we still won't know how to deal with depression, or so believes playwright Zoe Kazan, who creates one of the most insightful portraits of the disorder in After the Blast which opened October 23, at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center. Kazan's heroine, Anna (Cristin Milioti), lives in a future where the human race has been forced to move underground, after a series of nuclear and environmental cataclysms rendered the surface uninhabitable. She shares her home with her husband Oliver (William Jackson Harper) who works in a governmental department in charge of restoring the surface. Anna is suffering from a severe depression that has deemed her unable to get a permit for procreation. In this society, married couples are given only a few chances to have children, and Anna and Oliver have only one strike left. . . . |
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| Last Edit: student_rush 10:40 pm EDT 10/23/17 | |
| Posted by: student_rush 10:40 pm EDT 10/23/17 | |
| In reply to: NEW - AFTER THE BLAST - Talkin' Broadway's Review - T.B._Admin. 10:00 pm EDT 10/23/17 | |
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| Disagree. There are some touching moments between Milioti and the robot, but many - if not all - of the themes are barely scratched, with major reveals feeling weak and romanticized. Suicide? Eh. Violation of her humanity? Eh. Themes of ecological destruction? Heavy handed. The first twenty minutes is an exercise in how NOT to write exposition. The play could've dealt with serious issues in a complex manner, but Kazan introduces concepts and themes and never weighs the manner in which they could've heightened the drama of the play. |
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| re: NEW - AFTER THE BLAST - Talkin' Broadway's Review | |
| Posted by: lowwriter 09:21 am EDT 10/24/17 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW - AFTER THE BLAST - Talkin' Broadway's Review - student_rush 10:40 pm EDT 10/23/17 | |
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| The NY Times agrees with you. Brantley didn't like it very much. | |
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