Tripping on Life NYC Reviews and Tickets
Member Reviews (13)
See it if you'd enjoy a good story from the late sixties filled with drug use, hippie culture and some of the rock music. A few characters by 1 actor.
Don't see it if you expect to see a polished production-script in hand, the story is basically read to you. Minimal staging & long pauses in a one-hour show
See it if you like seeing an actress read from her script.
Don't see it if vanity productions are not your cup of tea. This one needs a lot of work.
See it if You like some light hearted story of a hippie couple and enjoy such humor with a great actor on lead
Don't see it if Don't enjoy any comedy that had to do with incident that ha to do with substance use incident
See it if Entertaining, provocative
Don't see it if If you’re not interested in seeing someone’s personal growth out of trauma
See it if one woman show where she reads about her lost love.
Don't see it if Basically just a reading Read more
See it if A woman’s retells the joys & sorrows of her life in the late 1960s.
Don't see it if Actor read from script. This play is not ready for prime time.
See it if You enjoy personal stories of hippie life in the 60’s & 70’s.
Don't see it if If these eras are not of interest to you.
See it if Despite its brevity (best asset) & verisimilitude, Ms Shaye fails to engage us w/either the dysfunctional family humor or the mawkish end
Don't see it if Nothing wrong with a solo memoir piece but it must transcend the personal into the universal This doesn't...& reading the entire script ugh!
Critic Reviews (5)
"Certainly there is no shaking the read-aloud nature of Ms. Shaye's performance, but what differentiates it from a book-on-tape production are her eloquent facial expressions, gestures, vocal intonations, and an ability to bring all of her characters to life with heart, humor, and a gentle touch."
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Shaye tells of a pot and drug-addicted couple who are totally disgusting parents to a two year old. That’s just not acceptable even though it was told as a funny hippy-dippy anecdote. Even so, Shaye is a great storyteller, her narration a perfect substitute for the absent camera. However, she is a poor developer of characters. Her insights end with naming the drugs each character takes. None of the characters seem to have any means of support, however colorful they are.
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For all its futile attempts to sound humorously hip, with dozens of F-bombs, dudes, drug references, and exaggerated examples of the hippie syndrome (including young men who answer the door totally nude, even in a state of arousal), the narrative struggles to get beyond the sleaziness and surprising cluelessness of its characters, including Shaye’s own, or to define them in more than one dimension.
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“All in all it is a misguided and jumbled evening. This is a story filled with good intentions, and we want to care about this guy she loved so much. But we never get a chance to make it to first base. The inserted photos in the program prove more compelling than the show.”
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The sleek and personable veteran actress Lin Shaye recounts for over an hour, indelible love and loss events from her life. These incidents mostly take place in dreamy and druggy 1960’s California, during her nostalgic self-written autobiographical staged reading solo show. It succeeds as a wistful theatrical memoir through its born to be wild theme.
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