Our Country NYC Reviews and Tickets

77%

(2 Ratings)

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Members say

Thought-provoking, Ambitious, Great staging, Refreshing, Clever

About the Show

A new play recalling a time when we were young—as individuals, as a nation, as a democratic system.

From the wild frontier to Ancient Greece to childhood memories, this play explores countless origin myths in an intimate portrait of a complicated sibling relationship. Inspired by Sophocles’ Antigone, artist Annie Saunders sets out on an autobiographical quest using recreations of recorded conversations with her outlaw brother. Inside this ever-changing space, they face one another at their most primal.

Show-Score Member Reviews (2)

Thought-provoking, Refreshing, Great staging, Clever, Ambitious

See it if you are in the mood for a creatively staged performance that is surprisingly touching and restrained for an experimental work.

Don't see it if you don't have an hour to spare - it is one of the highlights of this year's Under the Radar festival.

Quirky, Great staging, Thought-provoking, Confusing, Ambitious

See it if Annie Saunders' dense, complex devised theatre piece juxtaposes the Antigone story w/her own sibling drama w/mixed results Often fascinating

Don't see it if Saunders ambition can get the better of her all the interwoven plot lines/references Her brother's story can get indulgent (by design?)

Critic Reviews (1)

“ ‘Our Country’ means to be about more than one pair of siblings. Saunders and Wolff are also poking at Wild West myths about freedom, and at the widening chasm where some semblance of national identity used to be.”
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