“This struggle defeats the drama: Schmidt has written them as if they’re protagonists of two different plays, from two different genres.”
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“The Disappear bites off more than it can chew, attempting to ruminate on intergenerational tensions in the film industry, the scars left by art, composing art amid climate disaster, and more all at once.”
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“The play's messages about marriage, art and other big questions are buried in a production that is nearly unbearable to watch.”
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“The Disappear quickly reveals itself as bitter and thin, its in-crowd jokes sucking oxygen from the room and its greater thematic aspirations … flattened under anvils of layerless dialogue.”
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"Ms. Schmidt’s dialogue has a sheen of sophistication and can be archly funny, but it’s also wearyingly talky, and Ben’s egoism and pretentiousness are more tiresome than amusing."
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“A mildly farcical comedy of cringe, it will certainly leave you and your significant other with a lot to chew on.”
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"The Disappear echoes the Chekhovian interweaving of comedy and tragedy, capturing the absurdity of human connection against a backdrop of impending cataclysm."
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"The playwright never seems to find a coherent tone, or even theme, for the play...That’s not to say that The Disappear isn’t mostly entertaining, but rather that its whole is less than the sum of its parts."
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