Eric Bogosian's 1+1 NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (58)
See it if You want an enjoyable evening.
Don't see it if Cursing offends you. Read more
See it if Great writing - the dialogues are superbly natural and never dull. Scintillating and enthusiastic acting.
Don't see it if You may fault the plotline for being somewhat predictable but it's never just about the plot, innit? Read more
See it if You're up for a dated if well performed meditation on exploitation, redemption, responsibility and blame—sometimes it takes two.
Don't see it if You're offended or triggered by the subjects of sleaze, drugs, sex or internet porn—even though this is a pretty PG-rated version. Read more
See it if Manipulation, sleaze, lies & callousness is well acted. Many of us will remember glimmers of our youth in this horror show.
Don't see it if It's a small show, dialog heavy, but worth seeing.
See it if like minimalism, storytelling that focuses on the characters, excellent pacing & acting, simple white drop is enuf 2 let U know where U are
Don't see it if minimalism offends U along with sex drugs & rock & roll, avoid Bogosian's take on Hollywood strivers, if triggered by con games
See it if Manipulation, drugs, sex. Throw in multiple characters looking for love in all the wrong places. It’s an old, sadly still relevant story.
Don't see it if you don’t like bare bones staging, messy human relationships, are triggered by scenes of drug use, simulated sex, manipulation. Read more
See it if Pretty good story of an aspiring actress pulled into the seedy side of the biz. Not EB's best, but not bad, and the lead is very good.
Don't see it if It's not the sharpest dialogue - some jokes but not particularly funny, some good moments, but not particularly intense or absorbing.
See it if You want a well-acted production that doesn’t cover alot of new ground.
Don't see it if You don’t like depictions of drug use and sexual situations.
Critic Reviews (4)
"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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