Her Requiem NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (41)
See it if you appreciate fine acting in an original, interesting drama about creativity and obsession in an unusual family situation. Nice set, too.
Don't see it if you are thrown by unexpected plot lines. It's more about the mid-life crisis of the father than the precocious teenage daughter composer.
See it if Are interested in thought provoking drama (with bits of humor) that could go cliche, but doesn't.
Don't see it if You aren't into dramas with kind of flawed irresponsible characters.
See it if you want to see three fine performances from Mare Winningham, Peter Friedman, and especially, Keilly McQuail.
Don't see it if you do not like plays with a million subplots. This work also needs a few more rewrites before it should be produced on stage.
See it if you want a play examining our collective need to establish our individual meaning vis-a-vis art or the artistic process, at great expense.
Don't see it if you do not want to tease out the significance of secondary and tertiary characters offstage that clutter the central story towards ambiguity
See it if If your looking for a moderately entertaining family dysfunction plot or are interested in learning more about how Requiems are structured
Don't see it if Slightly pedantic dialogue about music/composers is not enough to hold your attention. Every other plot element is underdeveloped and random
See it if if you are interested in alternative lifestyles. This is what happens when hippies grow up. Beautiful set is like a visit to the country.
Don't see it if you are looking for a lot of action. There is a lot of talk but not much is explained.
See it if you're in the mood for a family drama play
Don't see it if you're looking for some light, fluffy entertainment
See it if Little gets resolved and even less gets evolved. It felt more like a long subject without much verb. It's entertaining enough, but uneven.
Don't see it if The point of theater for me is movement. Little changes on this play. It's like a painting Most characters are left as you found them.
Critic Reviews (12)
"Greg Pierce writes a wandering path that leads to the showdown, and these actors bring their A-game all the way through...In the end, it comes down to the two men battling it out...[but] it is the women who sort through the ballast in this tale. It just takes the author a long time to get us there. Next outing we would all be okay with getting there sooner and opening up the gates leading out of archetypes into the unknown."
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"Improbable if skillfully acted new drama....The play takes a couple of even more unexpected turns. I won’t spoil them except to say that they feel imposed by the playwright, in order to goose up an otherwise tame story, and to make it more thought provoking...Pierce can thank director Kate Whoriskey for assembling a first-class design team and a group of actors who, by their very presence nearly guarantee something worth watching."
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"Some of this is improbable, not to mention a little melodramatic, but director Kate Whoriskey has put together an elegant production. I wanted to move right into the comfortable home that set designer Derek McLane has created for the family. And the casting couldn't be better....But it's all a little too much for a 90-minute play. 'Her Requiem' is ambitious but it both overpromises and underperforms."
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"Life is mirroring art, which is mirroring life, in 'Her Requiem', the ambitious new play by Greg Pierce...'Her Requiem' addresses various intriguing ideas...but their execution lacks coherence at times...At the conclusion of the play, Caitlin’s requiem is completed, but the audience only hears the first chords. It seems an appropriate metaphor for this play which, with a few rewrites and sharpened focus, could be quite excellent."
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