The Mother (a learning play) NYC Reviews and Tickets
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See it if you've never seen Brecht done well.
Don't see it if you dislike highly performative styles, atonal music, and theatre-as-conversation-piece. Read more
See it if You enjoy thought-provoking work.
Don't see it if You don't like being in uncomfortable chairs.
See it if Brecht's play abt a mother's progress from maternal quietness to social activism is set in pre-revolutionary Russia. Kate Walk is brilliant
Don't see it if No traditional dramatic theatre here,rather experimental theatre that-according to Brecht-would change the world. Read more
See it if a wonderful adaptation of a brechtian masterpiece
Don't see it if you're part of the ruling class (or maybe you should see it the most)
See it if you're a fan of or have interest in Brecht, you enjoy experimental theatre and or interesting direction, you like thought provoking pieces
Don't see it if you want to see something fast-paced, something that keeps you at the edge-of-your-seat, you want to see something that feels important
See it if the theoretical experiments of a famous half-century-old avant garde theater entice.
Don't see it if you are seeking a conventional narrative, conventionally presented. Read more
See it if You are a fan of the Wooster group who did great work some years ago.
Don't see it if Bold but haphazard style choices annoy you.Too easily feeds on the pedantic quality.
See it if you like old plays and old politics stunningly reconsidered.
Don't see it if you don't like Brecht, communism or experimental theater.
Critic Reviews (3)
"It might be fair to say (warn?) that some of the Wooster Group shows...can be less involving to experience than to discuss with your friends in a doomed attempt to figure out what the company was trying to do. And so it goes with “The Mother.” The production both hews to the original text and honors the theatrical traditions that birthed it, and then it tweaks them."
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"Perhaps because Brecht’s text is so frankly pedagogical and presentational, The Mother (a learning play) does not quite have the sense of enigma and the frisson of distance between the material and the house style that characterize my favorite past Wooster shows; the trade-off is that it will likely feel more accessible to those who have not been following LeCompte and company for years. It may not go deep, but it’s a fine introduction."
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"Like Brecht, the Wooster Group is happy to draw attention to the artificiality of the theater, and to draw back the curtain on its creative process. But the similarities end there, as demonstrated by this formally bold yet thematically malnourished production."
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