Paradise Lost NYC Reviews and Tickets

70%

(32 Reviews)

Positive

53%

Mixed

34%

Negative

13%

Members say

Entertaining, Funny, Great acting, Ambitious, Disappointing

About the Show

Tom Dulack’s "Paradise Lost" is a fast-paced, witty, and accessible modern retelling of John Milton’s classic story of Good vs. Evil.

From the show:

After leading a rebellion of angels, Lucifer, has been banished from heaven. Now, beaten, vindictive and furious, Lucifer plots his revenge. He turns his eye to the Creator’s new world, a Paradise inhabited by creatures – male and female – made in his image. Adam and Eve have dominion over this garden of delight where they live in joy and happiness. Amidst all this bliss, is but one prohibition – they must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Lucifer and his minions Beelzebub and Sin sneak past Gabriel and his army of Angels undetected, to launch his plot. Targeting Eve, Lucifer charms her into believing that disobeying God is the way to an even greater Paradise with even more power, joy, and happiness. The rest is history.

John Milton explored Lucifer’s motivation in great detail, but what motivated Eve? This contemporary retelling of Paradise Lost asks the challenging question – Given all that Eve had, why did she fall so easily? And would we have responded any differently?

Member Reviews (32)

Funny, Nice sets/costumes, Uneven, Entertaining

See it if this is a very nice adaptation of the original and retelling of the Adam & Eve story.

Don't see it if The play starts with a plot that is developed throughout but completely ignored & dropped at the end. Why? What happened with those people? Read more

Funny, Entertaining

See it if You are interested in the Adam&Eve story. Most of the dialog was very modern and sometimes funny. Alison Fraiser & Eve were great!

Don't see it if The subject matter doesn't interest you. It could be 20min shorter, the first scene in particular felt way too long.

Funny, Great staging, Entertaining, Enchanting, Clever

See it if Louis Liberatore and allison Fraser were very good. Very good set and generally entertaining.

Don't see it if If you do not like modern plays. This Milton is a modern,but good version.

Refreshing, Funny, Great staging, Great acting, Entertaining

See it if you like hilarity applied to a Bible story -here great costumes and a changing, partially-projected set let a great troupe of actors shine.

Don't see it if you do not like humor in your religious stories or expect anything close to John Milton's poem - this is a creative adaptation.

Quirky, Great staging, Funny, Entertaining

See it if The Old Testament with a touch Jesus added.

Don't see it if If religion/myth/mankind is not your thing. Read more

Delightful, Clever, Entertaining, Great acting, Great staging

See it if you like a clever and funny look at Lucifer in the Garden of Eden. Wonderful and attractive set with very good actors. Alison Fraser a hoot!

Don't see it if you don't like humor poked at the Old Testament although this is gentle humor not Book of Mormon.

Studied, Great acting, Great staging, Intelligent, Romantic

See it if Studied refresher course of Milton's Adam & Eve meet-up poem of polarities. "Boundless love & magnanimosity." Shay's Queen Eve is masterful.

Don't see it if "Hideous miscreant!" Safe for feminists: "I'm claiming an UNFAIR superiority on you." No serpent. Great set w/ fireflies. Alison/Lou wasted. Read more

Almost but not quite good storytelling

See it if You appreciate the cast and a trying to be funny and profound take on Adam and Eve.

Don't see it if You want a good new version of the story.

Critic Reviews (3)

"Tom Dulack's play is more like the Classics Illustrated version, abridging the action of the original and ramming home its points with the insistence of a Sunday school teacher."
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"Fellowship for Performing Arts has given 'Paradise Lost' a first-rate physical production but unfortunately the script lacks any new wrinkles to engage our interest. Milton may have been the initial inspiration but not much of his masterpiece is left in this 21st century dramatization."
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"'Paradise Lost' diminishes its source material with its reductionist ploys. While it has its moments of sweetness, it can't avoid wading in theological puddles. Ultimately, the resulting blend of humor, poetry, and rhetoric is insufficiently appealing to justify the play's distortions."
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