Albert Camus’ The Fall
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Albert Camus’ The Fall
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Albert Camus’ The Fall NYC Reviews and Tickets

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Great writing, Great acting, Absorbing, Resonant, Brilliant

About the Show

A solo show adapting Camus' final novel.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (4)

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519 Reviews | 255 Followers
96
Intelligent, Great writing, Great acting, Delightful, Clever

See it if A fresh new rendition of A. Camus'novel is beautifully acted & so well written that it will make your hair stand up.

Don't see it if You don't enjoy self-defined absurdist Albert Camus'works. It would be helpful to check it out beforehand. Read more

132 Reviews | 16 Followers
96
Brilliant, Adaptation, Acting

See it if You want to see superb acting of a piece of theater that makes you think

Don't see it if Camus ain't for sissies.

115 Reviews | 20 Followers
70
Resonant, Profound, Great writing, Great acting, Absorbing

See it if you don't mind 1 man shows and Camus.

Don't see it if you want a comfortable sitting experience. The space is very nontraditional and not great for people who have back problems.

23 Reviews | 0 Followers
89
Absorbing

See it if Love a solo show that is creative

Don't see it if you need a major set and full cast

Critic Reviews (4)

Talkin' Broadway
October 19th, 2022

"There is a certain amount of comfort sitting in a room full of fellow unenlightened people, drawing strength from our shared hypocrisies and self-satisfied guiltlessness. Regrettably, 'Albert Camus' The Fall' demonstrates that one person's existential crisis can be simply a drunken rant to another."
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TheaterScene.net
October 23rd, 2022

Belgian actor Ronald Guttman gives a subtle, yet wrenching performance in The Fall, expounding the philosophies of Albert Camus trapped in the sad and now resigned character of the exiled Parisian lawyer Jean-Baptiste Clamence. Fellow bar mates, we the audience, are his confessors in a sailors’ dive bar in Amsterdam’s red-light district circa 1956. In adapting Camus’ last completed novel for the stage, Alexis Lloyd, has created a role of controlled emotions that belie the seething honesty struggling to rear its ugly head. Director Didier Flamand encourages the full use of the space to make constant contact with members of the audience. Turning around from ordering his drink at the bar, Guttman is in the best position to orate at will.
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Theater Pizzazz
October 29th, 2022

While it can’t be denied that much of this holds intellectual interest—Camus’s literary rival, Jean-Paul Sartre, loved the book—it takes considerable mental endurance to stick with and follow Clamence’s personalized philosophical meanderings while making yourself look perpetually interested, lest Mr. Guttman’s eye fall on you in an off moment while you’re pondering what’s going to be on TV when you get home.
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Off Off Online
October 22nd, 2022

"The actor’s unhurried delivery, punctuated by sudden outbursts, is like a slow boil—mostly calm but with small eruptions of desperation."
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