Distracted
Opening Night: March 5, 2009
Closing: May 10, 2009
Theater: Laura Pels Theatre
Distracted is a fast-paced and disarmingly funny look at parenting in the age of the Internet and Ritalin. Nixon plays a contemporary American mom who reaches out to teachers, psychotherapists, and neighbors to figure out if Attention Deficit Disorder is the root of her son’s problems.
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March 5, 2009
"I must confess that “Distracted,” Lisa Loomer’s new play about attention deficit disorder, didn’t really grip my attention. And no, I honestly don’t think it’s because I’m suffering from the malady du jour that is explored so self-consciously in this overextended, sometimes amusing comedy. Well, not any more than most Americans in the Twittering, consciousness-splintering 21st century."
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