Each Brought Some Silences (FringeNYC) NYC Reviews and Tickets
About the Show
Part of FringeNYC: Three convicts whitewash the Great Wall of China. Facing this immense and inexplicable task, Mauve, Mackerel, and Mere manage to squeeze in frequent coffee breaks, together experiencing a string of unusual interludes. A life in exile might be strangely liberating.
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See it if You like more experimental theatre that questions life.
Don't see it if You don't like Beckett style work and prefer more traditional stories.
See it if You don't mind thought-provoking plays reminiscent of "Waiting for Godot" and "No Exit" that ask you to explore the human experience.
Don't see it if You want a traditional story arc play.
See it if Well-delineated characters with good chemistry. Some genuine good moments of interaction.
Don't see it if Perhaps over-evocative of Waiting for Godot. Sometimes got lost in its own mysteriousness.
See it if you'd like a quirky and touching story about three very different characters stuck in an absurd situation that brings up big life questions.
Don't see it if You're not into absurd or abstract theater
See it if You like unique and simplistic theatre
Don't see it if You want something more main-stream
See it if You don't mind a poor attempt at a Beckett-style play
Don't see it if You don't enjoy a confusing script and bad acting
See it if You like Cerebral shows
Don't see it if You want something zany or improv
See it if You want to think and laugh, and be engaged by these off-beat, very human characters.
Don't see it if You want conventional theatre fare.
Critic Reviews (1)
"Sometimes, it’s unclear if the difficulty the trio appears to have connecting is always intentional. Occasionally, the script falters on the side of pastiche and becomes foggy in its own philosophizing, but it’s a hearty go at a twenty-something’s coming to terms with their own mortality...'Each Brought Some Silences' oftentimes becomes an enigma in and of itself—ironic considering it is all meant to answer questions, not create more of them."
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