See it if The show is brilliant, authentic, honest, so real. So powerful! It makes me realize how important is to have something to say in Theater.
Don't see it if If you are looking for comfort and entertainment, stay home. (Watch TV… TV is safe) Read more
See it if An extraordinary experience. Very hard to describe but so unique and brilliant. Incredible actors. Go see it. It will wake you up.!
Don't see it if If you want conventional storytelling
See it if you're open to razor sharp satire.
Don't see it if you're easily offended or defensive of American settler colonialism.
See it if you're looking for an original experience, with black actors telling America's story of settling the West, literally building it as they go.
Don't see it if you don't care for a deeply dark, funny and cynical look at America's history of settlement, genocide & violence,with audience participation
See it if A creative and critical take on the American west. The town is built before your eyes as the play progresses. Messy and chaotic but it works
Don't see it if As the "town" is built, lots of stories are taking place but becomes difficult to follow with sightlines obstructed by structures Read more
See it if you're up for a surprising, funny, sharp, but chaotic experience.
Don't see it if you're already aware of the violent reality of Wild West romanticism and its reverb through US history. Nothing new is ultimately said.
See it if A potent, powerful & provocative retelling of how the West was "won" via a performance group from South Africa/Denmark Visually inventive
Don't see it if Often visually & emotionally graphic; at times indulgently so Scenes can go on too longer yet pack the necessary punch Actors carry the show
See it if you wanted be challenged and see U.S. history from the perspective of South Africans. A unique and revealing point of view.
Don't see it if you like traditional theater and believe that Europeans "won" the west due to their virtue and intelligence rather than through violence.
"...it is too cluttered — stylistically, tonally, ideologically — to offer much insight."
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"4/5 Stars! The Wild West looms large in American self-mythology."
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"Because 'Dark Noon' is a depiction of the Wild West, there is a lot of onstage violence"
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"...'Dark Noon' becomes, for a few minutes at least, sharply personal and compelling."
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"is a funhouse-mirror retelling of American history: specifically, the 19th-century era"
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“The play views history through so many filters that the result is blurred.”
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"Dark Noon sheds light on often overlooked facts"
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"The lawless of the wild West"
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