Empathy School & Love Story NYC Reviews and Tickets
Member Reviews (4)
See it if you're game for an unexpected immersive journey
Don't see it if oblique, meditative, evocative storytelling is not your thing
See it if you are moved by honest probing work free of cheap, manipulative plots. Journey to the crossroads of performance, heart, and smarts.
Don't see it if you don't want to see the thrilling promise of 21c theater that can soulfully shake, challenge, and move you w/o deceit and fakey sentiment.
Critic Reviews (2)
"There are those rarer plays to which you to want to go solo. Take 'Empathy School & Love Story', the writer and director Aaron Landsman’s engaging diptych on varieties of loneliness...It’s an ideal single-ticket show, perfect for pondering on a quiet walk home by yourself...Though it deftly uses 21st-century technology, Mr. Landsman’s production is also steeped in the harsh sentimentality associated with literature from the early days of this country’s industrialization."
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“We experience the two one-acts as meditations—they're intentionally drifting, static, elliptical, hypnotic...Directing his own work, Landsman reveals a gift for low-key dazzle...Indeed, special tribute must be paid to the look and feel of the evening...The show makes you experience the familiar theater with new appreciation; Landsman's texts here are good, but it's the way he writes on the space itself that makes your heart leap with delight.”
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