"Despite the play’s overload of clichés, it’s possible to imagine a production of '1 + 1' that takes into account the dramatic shift in public consciousness about gendered power dynamics over the past 15 years"
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“The play itself relies on familiar views of Hollywood as a haven for predatory men and easily victimized women...1 + 1 has many of the ingredients of scintillating drama: sex, drugs, money, and Hollywood glamour. Unfortunately, in this production the elements don't add up.”
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Eric Bogosian’s latest play to reach New York is his 2008 "1+1" which feels like a made for television movie written without taking into consideration the #MeToo movement that has occurred since then. While its Hollywood milieu of pornography, drugs, and easy money exists, this seems like a rather simplistic view of it all. Director Matt Okin, founder of The Black Box theater company of Englewood, N.J., has done the actors no service allowing for a kind of soap opera acting. The minimalist production values undercut the discussion of the perks and glitz of the film world.
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a 1930s-like melodrama updated to the Internet Age about a woman’s descent after being betrayed by a scheming photographer,.. It doesn’t feel worth enumerating all the gaps in storytelling and in logic in “1+1,” especially in Act II, which takes place five years later, and presents a series of developments and revelations that largely feel imposed by the writer rather than springing believably from the characters.
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