Underground NYC Reviews and Tickets
About the Show
Shrapnel Theatre & Hartshorn-Hook Foundation present the NYC premiere of this dramedy about the end of a bad date that turns out to be the start of a very odd evening. Part of 59E59's annual Brits Off Broadway festival.
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See it if You'd like an update on the Boy meets Girl storyline in the 21st Century, particularly via digital dating with a Cell Phone App to meet IRL!
Don't see it if The fumblings of Millenials who have zero motivation in life, will probably bore you to death.
See it if you'll enjoy a play-at 70 minutes,more a sketch-about being young & single trying to find "the one" in a big city. It's a "fringe" type show
Don't see it if you're expecting something more than a 1 act play w/ minimal staging; prefer plays with a straightforward plot & fully developed characters Read more
See it if You enjoy very good acting and direction. The mood is as welcome and embracing as it is searching.
Don't see it if You need it all to add up. I so enjoyed spending time with this play, but I was never clear as to what journey the characters were on.
See it if Your a fan of British theater or romantic plays
Don't see it if You need lots of action on stage
See it if You want to see a simply staged performance about meeting a person of the opposite sex and their first date. You want to laugh.
Don't see it if You don't like simply staged plays. You are not interested in romantic plays.
See it if you like awkward first dates. so realistic.
Don't see it if you want action or avoid the awkward.
See it if you've ever engaged in or thought about online dating
Don't see it if you'd like a typical romcom
See it if Enjoyable one act play in the style of a British romantic comedy, confined to the "meet-cute." Uneven script, baffling ending
Don't see it if Singles wading through the modern world of dating with a high emphasis on the tech and apps involved is not of interest
Critic Reviews (13)
“James and Claire are both attractive figures, especially as played by the attractive Jinks and Sanders under Kate Tiernan’s crisp direction. Because they are, onlookers will likely hope, as James does, that they’ll click for the longer term. Do they? That’s where minding the gap comes in.”
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“The talented cast was able to make up for this slightly strained script by fleshing out their stereotyped characters and transforming them into real people, with their own delicate tics and intricacies. Michael Jinks and Bebe Sanders have an engaging, watchable chemistry…'Underground' raises some interesting questions about the anonymity of city life, but falls short of developing them to maturation.”
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“Director Kate Tiernan has the action move along the space naturally. The performances are assured...Isla van Tricht's dialogue is a joy to listen to. It is delightfully comic and convincingly captures Claire and James's early relationship self–consciousness…They are suitably sketchy and have a commonness about them that is very apt for this funny story of everyday commuting folk.”
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“Wittily accurate…The actors present us with likable archetypes…The story is slightly spoilt in the last 20 minutes…It doesn’t quite make sense and a simple comedy drama about two people coming together is unnecessarily complicated by the end, as a result. 'Underground' works overall however, because it presents no easy platitudes and doesn’t descend into a rom-com fantasy. Rather it is an intelligent patchwork of good and bad moments."
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“Modest, modern and perceptive...A very well-written romance....Wheeler and Sanders demonstrate an enviable romantic chemistry…Both characters are eminently likable and believable…The only place things come a little unstuck are the more surreal segues…An eminently breezy experience, speckled with beautifully observed and played fragments of human interaction. It's got obvious heart, brains to back it up and captures that elusive, easily forgotten thrill of romance underground.”
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