"The memory play is a fairly common staple of American drama .... Ian Eaton’s 'Superhero,' which follows this standard trope and which opened off-Broadway at the Sheen Center—and presented by Houses on the Moon Theater Company—last night, is based on his own story of growing up with immigrant parents in Harlem’s Manhattanville Projects. It makes for a mixed evening of theater since, on the one hand, Eaton has a story to tell that has the makings of something interesting and exciting. On the other, his writing doesn’t make the case that an audience will care to engage with it."
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"I’ve just gone on and on about the people making the script of 'SuperHero' come alive for a reason. They made the show what it was. The script currently does not have legs to stand on its own, but each of these artists, doing their job and executing their art, brought hot air to a deflated story and allowed it to get off the ground."
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SuperHero began performances the day after a gunman opened fire aboard a rush-hour Brooklyn subway train, giving added resonance to its protagonist’s decision to eschew violence as a response to personal turmoil. The playwriting debut of actor Ian Eaton, SuperHero is an autobiographical coming-of-age story about an awkward, overweight boy growing up in the Harlem projects in the 1980s.
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