The Convent of Pleasure NYC Reviews and Tickets

65%

(5 Reviews)

Positive

60%

Mixed

20%

Negative

20%

Members say

Confusing, Quirky, Ambitious, Clever, Great acting

About the Show

The Cherry Lane Mentor Project presents a play about our conflicting desires to escape the world and indulge in it, our excesses and our emptiness, and how they relate to our constant quest for “happiness.”

Margaret, a scholar, and Katherine, her partner, are moving to small-town Missouri. Margaret is studying playwright Margaret Cavendish, and she’s obsessed with the 17th century author's 'The Convent of Pleasure.' Katherine packs and Margaret procrastinates while their friend Laurel tries to convince them to stay. REI, self-loathing, and the 17th century threaten their course.

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Member Reviews (5)

35

Banal, Confusing, Disappointing

See it if If you want to support weak new American plays

Don't see it if You want to be entertained

73

Confusing, Original, Quirky

See it if You want to see emerging playwrights

Don't see it if You cannot go with the flow

Trailer

Creative team

Sarah Einspanier

Joshua David Robinson

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