The World My Mama Raised NYC Reviews and Tickets

72%

(5 Reviews)

Positive

80%

Mixed

20%

Negative

Members say

Thought-provoking, Relevant, Clever, Ambitious, Great acting

About the Show

Ari Stess' play is part of Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks, the company's annual series of new shows.

Member Reviews (5)

Stylized, Great acting, Exciting, Surprising, Inconsistent

See it if you like exciting scrappy theater in development and incredibly stylized performances/writing.

Don't see it if you would be frustrated by performances that don't resemble real human behavior (on purpose).

Confusing, Disappointing, Uneven, Disjointed, Relevant

See it if You get a comp or have a friend in it. Want to see a weak attempt at criticism of the penal system.

Don't see it if You are impatient with bootstrap productions and very uneven acting performances.

Clever, Smart, Really smart

See it if You are open to work which ruminates on the things we probably should be thinking about. It includes so many elements which make you smile.

Don't see it if You object to something which makes you work to put the pieces together. You think society works well, and our culture is as it should be.

Ambitious, Relevant, Great acting, Thought-provoking, Clever

See it if you want to hear a bold emerging theatrical voice offer an archly ambitious dystopian riff on income inequality & school-to-prison pipeline

Don't see it if you're not up for a show that chooses to wrestle with a LOT all at once (w/o uniform resolution); if you prefer a clear plot/story structure

Ambitious, Entertaining, Thought-provoking

See it if you're looking for exciting and quirky downtown theatre. A delightfully weird play given a solid production.

Don't see it if the production doesn't totally congeal, and I found some of the language a bit laborious. The play's reach exceeds its grasp a little bit. Read more

Critic Reviews (1)

“A social-justice comedy of sorts…Ms. Stess has a weakness for abundance over clarity. Here she is intent on depicting a whole system of American inequality that deems some lives valuable and others expendable, though there is an antic dimension to this darkness…Ms. Stess does interesting things with repetition as the play goes on, and she also turns racial profiling on its head...Other events are less successfully contrived in service of a political point.”
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