Fefu and Her Friends NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (47)
See it if you love Fornes's work or you've never heard of her immense impact on the contemporary theatre scene.
Don't see it if you should just see it. But if you only like musicals, this might not be your bag.
See it if You want to see a great play by one of the great writers of the 1970s. You’re interested in women writers and women’s issues.
Don't see it if You want to see something traditional. You can’t walk around well (you move around the theater). You want something straight forward. Read more
See it if You want to see a masterwork by a forgotten master. Like theater that features a diverse, all-female cast.
Don't see it if You're some kinda misogynist, don't like walking around the theater, need something straightforward. Read more
See it if A luscious astute revival of Fornes' landmark play about women's roles in society. Beautiful staging, design, acting.
Don't see it if If you are not drawn to stories about women this may not be for you
See it if you are looking for something unusual. A mix of traditional character study w/ some experimental flourishes. Very entertaining & provocative
Don't see it if you need everything to make sense. This is essentially an avant-garde work from 1978 that was way ahead of its time.
See it if 8 intelligent but very different women gather to discuss their roles in a charity event, chatting & philosophizing with some surprising*
Don't see it if Want more of a plot and don't like avant-garde, surrealistic works or if movement is difficult.** Read more
See it if literally stepping into theater history excites you. An early experiment in interactive performance has been updated with multi-ethnic cast
Don't see it if you expect to nap in your seat. They make you get up to see three small scenes in intimate spaces! You leave with a lot to think about.
See it if I've read and seen it a couple of times- and still don't "understand" this play, but nonetheless find it extraordinarily affecting.
Don't see it if Other than the jaggedness of the play - a strength for me - the only real downside in this production is that the cast seems *too young*.
Critic Reviews (9)
"While Fefu and Her Friends' is considered a feminist statement, in performance the play seems not to be very revealing about women or their positions other than the fact that the cast is entirely female."
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"There are laughs, and love affairs, and a water fight, and a hunting gun, and much discourse on art. It feels like a Goethe tale that passes the Bechdel test… a thought-provoking triumph for director Lileana Blain-Cruz and the many personalities she and the ensemble have detailed."
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"The Many Unusual Stages of ‘Fefu and Her Friends’: Read and studied for decades, a key work of the American avant-garde finally returns in a major New York revival."
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4/5 Stars "A play can be like a symphony, rapturous in a way that surpasses logic. María Irene Fornés's ingenious Fefu and Her Friends is such a work, and this revival from director Lileana Blain-Cruz is nothing short of exquisite."
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"The Wild Invention of 'Fefu and Her Friends,' and the (Latest!) Rewrite of 'A Bright Room Called Day'"
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"'Fefu and Her Friends': Can Misogyny Exist in a Play Without Any Men?:
Theatre for a New Audience stages the first off-Broadway revival of María Irene Fornés's masterwork."
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"An evening of glitteringly arranged social chaos, in which high comedy keeps company with many darker undertones. Even at its most enigmatic, the richly allusive text provokes with its intimations regarding women, privilege, power, and sexuality."
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3/5 Stars "Maria Irene Fornés' 1977 play is an absorbing and thoughtful if somewhat enigmatic work, still distinguished by its unorthodox structure."
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