Self
Opening Night: November 27, 2013
Closing: December 1, 2013
Theater: Metropolitan Playhouse
Between his spendthrift second wife and her profligate son Charles, Mr. Apex is soon to be bankrupt. When he appeals to his daughter for aid, they find her inherited fortune has mysteriously disappeared. Accusations fly; betrayals appear to abound; a child is banished, and hopes for justice lie in the hands of an unlikely pair: a ruthlessly practical businessman and a big-hearted nanny. Will any of them see beyond their primary interest…
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December 2, 2013
Somehow it’s comforting to know that silly rich people were ever thus. Sidney Frances Bateman’s “Self,” treated to a wry revival at the Metropolitan Playhouse, may have been written in 1856, but its high society remains amusingly recognizable: a world of misers and socialites, dandies and ditzes, parvenus and social climbers, whose supposedly excellent breeding excuses their excesses. Middle-aged mean girls spit daggers through their air kisses, and no one will cop to ever having had a grandpa. (If you go back too many generations, after all, some forebear is bound to not have had money.)
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