| RUSSIAN TROLL FARM (spoilers) | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 09:50 pm EST 02/02/24 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 09:46 pm EST 02/02/24 | |
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| A theatrical imagining of a political backroom in the contemporary genre of J.T. Rogers or Peter Morgan. But here the imagination jerks back and forth between farce, melodrama, horror and sentimentality. There doesn't seem to be a unifying center, whether that be storytelling, theme or language. Yet the playwright Sarah Gancher gets to the finish line with this mishmash with a certain amount of verve and confidence. But I still found the play a chore to sit through. The actors are all working very hard. Darko Tresnjak, a director whose work I've admired in the past, directs with a heavy broad hand. There are constant punctuations with facial double-takes, physical movement, sound and light design as if to give the evening a tempo lacking in the text. Some of the actors handle this better than others. The play does have one interesting idea in it, particularly the way many of the characters seem to fall in love with the communities they are trolling or to see their private selves reflected in those communities. Yet it is unclear whether the central premise that Russian cyber warfare not only influenced but secured the Trump victory in 2016 is meant to be taken satirically or not. It does seem that we are meant to see Russian interference as the main explanation for the defeat of Hillary Clinton and the victory of Donald Trump which feels like the messaging of a Democratic Party troll farm. |
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