Fall River Fishing NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (17)
See it if A new step for Bedlam - going full-blast Bedlam with a contemporary play (both playwrights on stage). Terrific actors, expertly directed.
Don't see it if absurdist, somewhat confusing or challenging material
See it if want to dilly-dally for 2.5 hrs. Occasionally poignant, frequently funny, even weirdly sexy at inopportune times. Good cast.
Don't see it if The show seems to make a big show of not having anything to say. Just throws pasta at wall, leaves audience to figure it out. Read more
See it if You like to seek out new theatre experiences beyond Broadway, if you like Bedlam Theatre productions or just want to see something different
Don't see it if If you’re expecting an all out, laugh a minute, sarcastic take on Lizzie Borden or don’t like foul language and sexual innuendos. Read more
See it if you really like seeing "challenging" takes on classics
Don't see it if you don't like hearing a constant stream of cursing (for no reason) and like clear themes and motivations.
See it if If you want to support Bedlam, off-Broadway and its poor cast.
Don't see it if This is just nonsense, it is not a real play. It is like a bad SNL skit that goes on and on. The humor wears thin very fast. Read more
See it if you like a combination of history and the absurd
Don't see it if if you are only interested in conventional storytelling
See it if Offbeat mash up of different genre’s with thoughtful intelligent characters
Don't see it if Somewhat inside theatre jokes
See it if you'd like an ambitious, thought-provoking exegesis of modern theater and the sacrifices required to make it
Don't see it if you aren't familiar with Ibsen's A Doll's House.
Critic Reviews (6)
“After all of the jokes and the bloodshed and a brief waltz between the deceased, the play turns into a less interesting thought experiment in its second act...By then ‘Fall River’ has not only lost its steam, but also its appeal, and its last bit of sense.”
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“Despite all the hacking and blood and talk of murder, it’s the outrageous al dente final scene that leaves the most lasting impression. Exiting the theater, everyone seemed to be talking about going out for spaghetti.”
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Absurdist to an increasingly ho-hum degree, Szadkowski and Knox let their imaginations run amok with silly speculations about pre-double-homicide life in the Borden household that are punctuated by head-scratchingly anachronistic jokes involving Tinder, Cabbage Patch Kids, John Belushi, and whatever other free associative references apparently sprung to mind during their no-doubt personally enjoyable writing sessions together. The problem is that Szadkowski and Knox are incapable of bridging the gap between their evident fun and our actual entertainment, an obnoxious shortfall made cringe-worthy by the fact that they both star in "Fall River Fishing."
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"Witty dialog and stinging performances are the order of the day, aided by the edgy and taut direction of the company’s artistic director, Eric Tucker."
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“There are threads weaving the sections together...The fractured and dysfunctional bonds of family. Murder. But the more the piece tries to tap into emotions beneath its polish, the less it succeeds.”
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Lizzie Borden, a favorite true-crime subject since long before the genre had that name, is the inspiration behind Fall River Fishing, a new play directed by Eric Tucker and written by two of its cast members, Deb Knox and Zuzanna Szadkowski. Their double duty as playwrights and performers doesn’t fully convey just how much Knox and Szadkowski, along with their three castmates (Susannah Millonzi, Jamie Smithson and Tony Torn), put into the show. It succeeds because of these five deeply invested performances,
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