The Lanford Wilson Project Part Two: Sympathetic Magic
The Lanford Wilson Project Part Two: Sympathetic Magic
Closed 1h 50m NYC: Midtown W
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Great writing, Quirky, Wordy, Indulgent, Ambitious

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A group of clever artists, scientists, searchers, and more balance uncertainty amidst a pandemic. 

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Critic Reviews (2)

TheaterScene.net
December 9th, 2021

A new theater company, Open Circle Play Factory, has been formed to reassess his work and those of other writers from the Circle Repertory Company which he helped found. Their inaugural endeavor is aptly called “The Lanford Wilson Project” including revivals of his The Mound Builders and Sympathetic Magic, two plays which were written 22 years apart but appear to have been conceived as companion plays with a great many things in common. As such they make fascinating viewing back to back. However, each is an entirely separate story and they do not need to be seen together.
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Off Off Online
December 7th, 2021

"Highlighting some of Wilson’s lesser-known works is a noble pursuit, as his cerebral, entertaining plays force you to walk away with a new perspective, even if that means reckoning with our almost incomprehensible insignificance in the face of history and the cosmos."
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