California NYC Reviews and Tickets
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See it if You love a great story told by great story tellers, love a simple but entrancing show, love a great off-off broadway.
Don't see it if Don't like festivals, don't like plays, don't like new works, don't like simple story telling. Read more
See it if you like theater layered, seeming simplicity on top of thought provoking depth. Exquisite inner & outer experience of a family car trip
Don't see it if you are not prepared to laugh at your memories of traumatizing family travel drama.
See it if Like shows that begin linearly and then ever off. Are entertained by family-related jokes and awkward situations.
Don't see it if Need a crystal clear storyline or message.
See it if you like a trippy, funny downtown experience.
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Critic Reviews (2)
"A road trip could be a bonding experience, or it could become a contemplation of existential boredom. 'California,' the playwright Trish Harnetiaux’s new show, bravely, if not entirely satisfyingly, ventures into this setup: Not only does it take place entirely in a car, it also ponders the possibility of a multiverse folding into coexisting realities."
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"Trish Harnetiaux’s play 'California' looks at time, death, storytelling, aging, memory, and nostalgia in a playful, unexpected way. As with the best of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks, 'California' is just a whisp of a show (only an hour long) but under its light-hearted, mysterious, oddball surface, there are some thoughtful questions and a deeper meaning to mull over after the show ends."
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