Montag NYC Reviews and Tickets
About the Show
Production Covid-19 Safety ProtocolsShow-Score Member Reviews (11)
See it if you like horror; you enjoy slightly wacky, unpredictable theater; you have an open mind; great actin
Don't see it if you dislike ambiguity in storytelling, contemplations about domestic violence, sex work. Read more
See it if You like experimental, bizarre, confusing two-handers (until the end when the grim reaper and a babysitter appear).
Don't see it if Need logic, clarity, or lighthearted entertainment. None of these are present.
See it if you like ambiitious, eccentric theatre with gorgeous design and wonderful acting.
Don't see it if you need conventional, easily explicable theatre that sticks to one genre and is super well lit (lots of murky lighting here)
See it if you enjoy rich people in the audience with you performatively going "hmmmm" every five seconds while you try to make sense of the show
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See it if You’re interested in the crafts of acting and staging plays. You are satisfied with good moments—within a structure that never makes sense.
Don't see it if You want a play to make sense and leave the theater feeling you’ve had some kind of shared experience.
See it if You enjoy tense theater with experimental twists, and subversions of expectations based in the play’s subject and structure.
Don't see it if don’t like having to unpack the meaning of things after or don’t like shifts in tone that could change the meaning of the previous scenes
See it if you want to support new work. Enjoy a crazy music video moment. Like the grad-school-with-a-budget aesthetic.
Don't see it if you’re expecting a cohesive piece.
See it if You would like to see what the first draft of a student play made up of writing assignments that never actually pays off.
Don't see it if You want to see a good play.
Critic Reviews (4)
"Not quite a comedy and not quite a tragedy, sometimes a thriller and often something more bizarre, the play is a hymn to female friendship and, in harsher music, a study of the threat of intimate partner violence."
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"Even when we're not quite sure what we're watching, we know we want to see more as the tension builds over 90 strange and fascinating minutes...'Montag' is a great Halloween watch."
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"Welcome back to edgy avant-gardism! This intriguing production signals an all-clear: it’s time to emerge from our own post-pandemic safe rooms."
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While director Dustin Wills has given Montag a superb production, the meaning and message of Kate Tarker’s play remains obscure. Demonstrating female empowerment alone is not enough if the details remain murky and confusing. If the play has any geopolitical message about American-German-Turkish relations, it is entirely lost in the proceedings. The fact that both women are now single parents is not given much significance in the play. One gets the feeling that much of the play has a private meaning for the author who grew up in Germany on the outskirts of a U.S. military community.
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