Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (52)
See it if You like a show with something to say. Acting was top notch. Set was perfect. Staging,costumes, other tech elements were spot on. Well done!
Don't see it if You are looking for a light and fluffy musical. Show has something important to say, says it well. It held my interest and was quite funny.
See it if You love an intelligent political satire with humanity. Each character were stand-outs and they will leave a lasting impression on you.
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See it if You enjoy workplace comedies. It was really clever and fun with great performances
Don't see it if You don’t want to see a play taking place around 2016 election.
See it if you want a hilarious workplace comedy about pizzagate and manufactured outrage
Don't see it if you have a low tolerance for political art
See it if You are interested in examining (or re examining) the election of 2016
Don't see it if You just want to be entertained
See it if It takes place at a troll farm at the edge of the 2016 election but it's more about the characters. Very clever and absorbing and funny.
Don't see it if You expect this to be a lesson in history and troll farming.
See it if you love politics and are interested in the election process.
Don't see it if you are a trumptard.
See it if you're interested in the reveal of a world where you can't know who or what to believe; Christine Lotti and cast are wonderfully irritating
Don't see it if u want to believe everyone gets along & wants to do what is best for the world, Lotti's character ensures no one gets too comfortable with Read more
Critic Reviews (15)
"...is an entirely different, and in some ways disappointing, experience."
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"...meeting the faces behind the Twitter bots"
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"...is by turns funny, nasty, and both, but it never fully grabs us by the throat."
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"Tresnjak’s...does an excellent job of showing us the reality-irreality fault line."
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"Gancher has little to add to the indictment. The play isn't fake news, but it is old news."
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"This is a rare play that would benefit from being longer."
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"This would-be 'workplace comedy' (per its subtitle) is largely lacking in yuks."
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Sarah Gancher’s "Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy" is seemingly torn from the headlines - if this were the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election which pitted Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump. In 2024, it seems rather past its due date. Although it calls itself a comedy, it is not very funny but rather outrageous in its depicting of Russian misinformation intended for the American internet to influence the voters to cast their ballot for Trump rather than Clinton. What Gancher has written cannot make up its mind whether it is a comedy, satire, parody, drama or tragedy or a combination of all the above, which is problematic.
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