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Read reviews of the plays in the 09-10 Season |
| Posted by Administrator (ncsc) on Aug 28 2009 at 11:48 PM |
To read the full reviews from the New York Times, click on the links below (warning, some may contain plot points, so tread carefully if you like to be unspoiled!). The New York Times requires you to login to to view older reviews.
The Beauty Queen of Leenane, by Martin McDonagh
"Sometimes you don't even know what you've been craving until the real thing comes along....''The Beauty Queen of Leenane,'' the stunning new play from the young Anglo-Irish dramatist Martin McDonagh, is like sitting down to a square meal after a long diet of salads and hors d'oeuvres. Before you know it, your appetite has come alive again, and you begin to feel nourished in ways you had forgotten were possible." - The New York Times, 1998
True West, by Sam Shepard
"Though ''True West'' ... is specifically anchored in time and place, it also has a primal, even eternal quality. And as funny as it is, it is equally unsettling..." - The New York Times, 2000
Dead Man's Cellphone, by Sarah Ruhl
"[Sarah Ruhl] blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving." - The New York Times, 2008
What the Butler Saw, by Joe Orton
"Here at last are the two hours of nonstop laughter that theatergoers have been pursuing all season....But to settle for calling Orton's comedy funny is not to do it justice. In this work, the author of ''Entertaining Mr. Sloane'' and ''Loot'' wrote that rare thing, a truly revolutionary play." - The New York Times, 1989