Fulfillment Center
Opening Night: June 20, 2017
Closing: July 9, 2017
Theater: MTC
In the New Mexico desert, a down-on-her-luck folk singer takes a job at a giant online retailer’s shipping center. Her young manager struggles to connect with his girlfriend newly relocated from New York. And a drifter living at a local campground dangerously links them all. Raw, surprising, and funny, this world premiere from the fast-rising author of Kill Floor is about four lonely lives coming together in the search for fulfillment.
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June 20, 2017
Human contact is always a compromise in Fulfillment Center, Abe Koogler’s quietly shattering new play, and never a satisfactory one. The four lonely characters in this impeccably realized Manhattan Theater Club production, which opened on Tuesday night at City Center Stage II, keep brushing up against one another — tentatively and clumsily — while aching for fuller connection.
Kisses, for instance, seldom involve two willing participants, so when sets of lips meet, they don’t meld. Everyday social rituals, like having a drink or a meal together, become imbalanced exercises in which nothing is really shared.
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