Ectoplasm NYC Reviews and Tickets

65%

(13 Reviews)

Positive

39%

Mixed

46%

Negative

15%

Members say

Great staging, Disappointing, Absorbing, Confusing, Ambitious

About the Show

A thrilling new play by Sara Fellini, presented by The Players Theatre.

In 1912, a private seance at an intimate dinner party leads guests to question life and death itself. Among the guests is a famous magician, hell-bent on de-bunking spiritualism. A simmering love triangle between the two spiritual mediums and a Byronesque madame, plus a mysterious uninvited guest adds gasoline to the tense private affair.

Member Reviews (13)

Indulgent, Confusing, Disappointing, Great staging

See it if If you know the acting co or actors in the show. Nice set.

Don't see it if If you want a play where the writing is conclusive.

Ambitious, Absorbing, Great acting, Great writing, Great staging

See it if you enjoy off-off Broadway shows with good casts, great staging, costumes & props in an interesting story performed without an intermission.

Don't see it if you do not enjoy period pieces that deal with spirtitualism.

Repetitious, Slow, Unfocused, Thought-provoking, Great staging

See it if you want to see hard working actors coping with a weak script. The costumes and set are wonderful.

Don't see it if you are likely to be distracted by recognizable historic figures & actual events presented as fiction.

Absorbing, Great staging, Thought-provoking, Edgy, Clever

See it if you like an unusal plot with seances, mediums and magicians. The set in this small theater was very inpressive and used well.

Don't see it if you don't like small theaters or strange stories. Read more

Unskilled writing, Meaningless, Poor direction, Amateurish acting, Tedious

See it if you like anything that involves psychics, communicating with the dead and other aspects of spirituality.

Don't see it if expect competent writing, direction and acting.

Irreverent, Quirky, Uneven

See it if you're looking for a bizarre night of theater, filled with a weirdly off-beat entertaining ensemble, and a few moments of quite witty dialog

Don't see it if you expect a play that promises so much as it builds its premise and characters not devolve into disappointing cliche territory in the end.

Indulgent, Quirky, Disappointing, Banal

See it if you know a member of the cast that you want to support

Don't see it if you want to see a play with good acting, good writing and good direction

Confusing, Great staging, Absorbing

See it if I had a hard time following the plot as there was a lot going on. The sets and costumes were top notch...It's worth seeing...

Don't see it if You don't like drawing room dramas involving seance and the occult.

Critic Reviews (2)

"As you watch Ectoplasm, you can hear noise from the outdoor dining up and down the block, even music from the clubs nearby. Its carpet unrolls damply in front of you as you walk in from MacDougal Street, a stubborn revenant of the pre-wealth neighborhood. It’s not gorgeous, but there’s tenacity ground into every red velvet seat. (In other words, I love it.)"
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Ectoplasm counts among its themes and topics: poetry, women’s rights, prostitution, women’s suffrage, love, death, the paranormal, the supernatural, fraudulent mediums – and the love that dare not speak its name, except here it is openly discussed, circa 1912. Each and every character has an agenda which is too many plot devices, while the actual plot never quite resolves itself. While the play has been given an elegant physical production, the script does not entirely hang together or feel satisfying.
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