You Will Get Sick NYC Reviews and Tickets
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See it if you're a fan of Linda Lavin, like seeing a debuting playwright attempt something profound, comedic approach to fatal illness & eccentricity
Don't see it if Symbology confusing and disconnected, situation a tad unbelievable especially caregiver's eccentricities and rudeness, disapponting
See it if you like to be hip and pretend you understand and like something no honest person would.
Don't see it if You are hoping for a quality Broadway play with an even cast. Read more
See it if you want to see a play that needs substantial rewrites and workshops. This play is not ready for prime time.
Don't see it if just don't waste your time.
See it if Linda and Daniel act with sincerity and humor in a slightly fantastical journey of acceptance of getting sick. Fascinating parallels with Oz
Don't see it if Caring for the sick/dying, talking about sickness/health decline, fantastical elements, actors talking about acting, humor about death. Read more
See it if you are dying to see Linda Lavin back on stage in all her glory.
Don't see it if you are turned off by the idea of sitting through a WEIRD, OFF, QUIRKY new play just to see Linda Lavin's return to the stage. Read more
See it if you like daring writing, inventive staging, good acting, and out-of-the-box storytelling.
Don't see it if you only like straightforward theater.
See it if you enjoy great performances and are open to shows that are a little quirky but that deliver a positive message.
Don't see it if you don't enjoy concept shows or shows that require you to think.
See it if you are willing to accept the premise and the highly improbable events that follow. Some fine acting by Linda Lavin & Daniel Isaac.
Don't see it if you need to be grounded in real-life drama or the unreality of musical theater. This play has a message, & I accepted all that went with it.
Critic Reviews (12)
"Neither prosaic nor clinical, it defies all expectations for a story in which the main character receives a fatal diagnosis, telling the tale in the most lively, surreal and surprising ways imaginable."
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"The bird bit is funny, but the layers of surreality Diaz throws into the mix start to obscure the finer details of the characters’ dynamic...the production itself also tends to overemphasize the bizarre, and runs away from itself."
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" 'You Will Get Sick' prompts more confusion than clarity, but a healthy helping of dry humor and a commitment to being daring and experimental for its own sake make it entertaining. In a way, the play is like a mysterious sickness: It could get better, or worse, or weirder at any moment, and you don't know which until it's happening."
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"In its own roundabout way, this surreal new comedy might also be the most searingly astute drama of the Covid era."
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Lavin is one of the chief supports propping up Noah Diaz's wacky, winsome, and sometimes too -cute-by-half examination of the fate that lies in store for us all. It's a mildly retrograde exercise in 1960s absurdism, skittering wildly between farce and tragedy, that sometimes hits the mark, when it isn't winking, broadly, at his own darn cleverness. Dressed up by Sam Pinkleton's highly imaginative production, it is never boring. But it walks the finest of lines and sometimes it trips.
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"I almost feel guilty having enjoyed it as much as I did. But playwright Noah Diaz, making his New York debut, has so artfully stitched together the real world and some far-off galaxy of his imagination, and fused the funny with the sad, that 'You Will Get Sick' emerges as a highly original pick-me-up."
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"The play left me pondering such weighty mysteries as the way shame likes to glom onto illness – as if, in assuming responsibility after the fact, we can continue to delude ourselves that, however weakened, we remain in control."
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Over an interminable eighty-five minutes, playwright Noah Diaz's "You Will Get Sick" meanders between absurdity and inanity, continually challenging the audience to distinguish one from the other. I gave up. That's fine, because director Sam Pinkleton does, too, resigned to let a likable cast and inventive design team spin their wheels until the blessed ending.
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