| SKINTIGHT Tonight (Possible Spoiler) |
| Last Edit: sergius 11:34 pm EDT 06/20/18 |
| Posted by: sergius 11:29 pm EDT 06/20/18 |
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| Joshua Harmon is a talented young playwright. He's thoughtful and smart, and he has a flair for the provocative. With SKINTIGHT he's firing on a number of cylinders, but it's largely unclear what he's aiming at. It doesn't help matters that the play is badly directed. It's sluggish and it careers from farce to melodrama to a variation on an issue, or problem, play. The actors are neither funny enough nor otherwise credible. The only character that seems remotely plausible is a young Jewish gay man who's the sort of contemporary neurotic that Harmon writes so well. Otherwise, unclarity reigns. Everyone is either preposterously unlikeable or just preposterous. The play is entirely unpersuasive. With some notable exceptions--an elderly gay man being lectured at by his heterosexual daughter on the difference between lust and love is patronizing if not homophobic--it's mostly an amiable mess. |
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And i thought it was one of the best plays ive seen in a long time - dramedy 12:13 pm EDT 06/21/18 |
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