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February 24, 2011

Spend a few minutes — or even a few hours — wandering the halls of your average New York apartment building, and you are not likely to see much more eye-popping action than the collecting of newspapers, the wrangling of children into chunky strollers and the delicate dance of polite avoidance that most locals consider all that is required of neighborly intimacy.

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New York Daily News
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Joe
Dziemianowicz

February 25, 2011

Even theater companies who pride themselves on presenting edgy new plays can fall into predictable grooves. So you’ve got to hand it to the Rattlestick for shaking itself up for Adam Rapp’s ambitious and sometimes outrageous work, "The Hallway Trilogy," whose three self-contained stories unfold in a lower East Side tenement 50 years apart.

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February 25, 2011

As you walk along the passage that is Adam Rapp’s nearly five-hour triptych devoted to an architectural commonplace, you notice a disturbing design: Progressively, the paint peels and flakes; the plaster cracks, revealing listing joists and termite-nibbled shims; trash gradually piles up, raising a fetid stench and getting underfoot; finally, your journey stops at a lightless dead end. In other words, Rapp’s trilogy begins strong but eventually breaks down and leads nowhere. Conceivably, Rapp would approve of the metaphor; the Hallway Trilogy—which stays in place while a century passes—might just be about our voyage to death.

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February 28, 2011

“The Hallway Trilogy” is certainly playwright-director Adam Rapp’s largest project to date. But when viewed as a whole, it comes across as a puzzling, pointless and oversized experiment.

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New Jersey Newsroom
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Michael
Sommers

February 23, 2011

Admirable acting and keen design work — and even some good writing — unfortunately cannot deny a dawning recognition that Adam Rapp’s new three-play collection, “The Hallway Trilogy,” is a dramatic case of patchy and gradually diminishing returns.

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