Red Speedo NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (123)
See it if philosophical shows dealing with morality, ethics in relation to human motivations
Don't see it if dislike moral ambiguity
See it if you like well made plays that are character driven. A pair of brothers depend on each other but have individual needs creating opposition.
Don't see it if you are looking for something light or silly. There are many funny moments but this is serious drama.
See it if You like sports stories. You like stories about issues. You like unique staging. You don't mind violence portrayed on stage.
Don't see it if You don't like sports stories. You don't like violence on stage. You want a light comedy.
See it if You like to see someone swim on stage and see a story about a Olympic swimmer caught up in a brewing doping scandal.
Don't see it if You want any fully fleshed characters that you can care about and see the pool on stage as anything more than a gimmick.
See it if to see an murky pool of morally-challenged, success-driven characters, and a character in an actual pool!
Don't see it if An ending with open questions is one thing, but this fade to black at the 80-min mark leaves one questioning what happened to the 2nd Act?
See it if Enjoy moral dilemmas, contemporary settings, fast-paced dialogue, and/or sports themes. You won't see a set like this often/ever again!
Don't see it if You think sports and the Olympics are a waste of time, dislike dialogue-heavy plays, find family violence disturbing.
See it if you really love early Mamet and desperate characters. You like topical, twisty plays.
Don't see it if you don't have time for well-made but ultimately not very memorable shows.
See it if You are interested in innovative stage design, questions about ethics in sports, law or family matters.
Don't see it if You are easily upset by moral gray areas, violence or topics of drug use and abusive relationships
Critic Reviews (27)
"After a tremendously impactful showing last fall with 'The Christians,' Lucas Hnath brings another of his works to the stage with less than impressive results...He has imbued this play from cover to cover with staccato, interrupted dialogue between two characters...On paper it likely looks like a frantic, energetic, heightened dialogue. On stage, it merely appeared like a machine gun misfiring."
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"A provocative new play by Lucas Hnath which has been swimming upstream since 2013 in various stages of development. It still needs work...Under the unimpressive direction of Lileana Blain-Cruz the play jerks along...Sometimes the dialogue is so rapid fire one tunes out. It is only when they slow down and connect with each other that we begin to care both for Ray and Peter (who gives the best performance of the evening)."
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"Director Blain-Cruz keeps Hnath’s script moving quickly, though the snappy, rapid-fire dialogue sometimes seems forced...The script really soars when each character has a longer chance to speak—granting the audience a look inside their psyches...Hnath’s writing leaves no clear protagonist and offers no ethical calls throughout the production. Rather, he leaves the audience to ponder that all-too-gray area between right and wrong, good and bad."
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