A Parallelogram
Opening Night: July 11, 2017
Closing: August 20, 2017
Theater: Second Stage Theatre
If you knew in advance exactly what was going to happen in your life, and how everything was going to turn out, and if you knew you couldn’t do anything to change it, would you still want to go on with your life? That is the question facing Bee who, much to Jay’s confusion, can click through different moments in her life with the touch of a remote control. Past, present and future collide in this sharp existential comedy that questions whether we can make peace with those things we don’t have the power to change.
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August 2, 2017
Everybody complains about the future, but nobody does anything about it. That’s the bug of irritation that sets Bruce Norris’s “A Parallelogram” swatting for more than two hours at a target it can’t hit. The 2010 play, which had its belated New York premiere on Wednesday at Second Stage Theater, offers plenty to think about and much to enjoy in Michael Greif’s sleek production. But as drama it’s not only a nonstarter but a nonender; it’s a red herring that swallows its own tail.
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