17 Minutes NYC Reviews and Tickets
Member Reviews (137)
See it if Hard to watch a show about Parkland, but an inventive angle with raw performances. Well told, well staged. Made me think a lot after!
Don't see it if Shows about mass shootings/trauma are tough for you.
See it if Gripping drama about a sheriff's deputy who freezes during a shooting. Short scenes during the weeks that follow. I cried at the end.
Don't see it if You don't want an intense emotional experience in an intimate theater.
See it if You’re up for a deep dive into the human condition. What we know isn’t the same as what we believe. When the two divide, who are we?
Don't see it if you come to the theater to be amused. This is the serious business of a human soul disintegrating before your very eyes.
See it if community ripped apart by violence; perceptive study of how deputy scapegoated for society's ills; script surprises/gripping final scene
Don't see it if static staging; no payoff or catharsis, only numbness, by end
See it if you like well written plays dealing with current topics.Larry Mitchell is itch perfect in the lead.Some other performances are a bit weak.
Don't see it if you are looking for something light and frothy.This will touch you and make you think.What would you do in that situation?
See it if very emotional story that shows other aspects of school shootings - the guards, the what-ifs; don't want didactic/preachy
Don't see it if want light topic; don't want the trauma of school shooting, want elaborate stage; don't want extremely emotional story
See it if you are interested in a show that is heart-wrenching and timely, exploring different aspects of a school shooting from a unique perspective.
Don't see it if you don't like shows that talk about violence or small venues.
See it if you want to see how one tragic event affects those associated with those involved.
Don't see it if you are triggered by high school gun violence.
Critic Reviews (5)
"Organ and company have taken on tough -- maybe impossible -- assignment in 17 Minutes, and, to their credit, everyone involved never exploits its central situation for easy tears. But such reticence, however admirable, also curbs the play's drama."
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"'17 Minutes' tackles one of the most pressing contemporary social problems facing the United States...Organ's play accomplishes what the theatre does best: It presents this issue not as an emotionally fraught intellectual argument, but as a complicated and compassionate human drama."
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"Despite all, the play is somehow not depressing. There's something about the stark honesty of Organ's story and of the production itself that lends the play a kind of grace. This is an extraordinary piece of theater that should be widely seen."
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Score: 95% "'17 Minutes' does not preach to us what we already know...It presents each character's despair and confusion about their various roles with a tender hand and deep respect for the complications inherent in being on the front lines of this problem."
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"Does little to illuminate either the issue itself or the unavoidable problem of assigning blame. The…characters never engage us deeply enough for us to care. There's also little that's distinctively original…and the ultimate point…doesn't move the needle."
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