You Will Get Sick NYC Reviews and Tickets
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See it if This is simply brilliant - bold, imaginative, and heartbreaking all at once, yet also deeply funny. Linda Lavin's performance is phenomenal.
Don't see it if It's not for those who want to be told what to think and feel.
See it if You want to see an interesting story acted by 5 very skilled actors including Linda Lavin, You want to be engaged for 85 minutes nonstop.
Don't see it if You want a large scale production and a set as this is very minimal - Almost has a black Box Theater feel but is cleverly presented.
See it if you appreciate wildly innovative plays from a distinctive voice that are pushing the boundaries of what theater can do
Don't see it if you need a traditional plot or naturalism to be engaged
See it if A difficult ambitious show. Can be confusing, requires analysis which is sometimes hard to do in the moment. Unique rift on 'everyone dies"
Don't see it if You need to be spoon fed what is happening. Abstract work that can only be truly appreciated after you've seen it and thought of it Read more
See it if smart, quirky, unconventional approach to sickness and death
Don't see it if prefer a traditionally structured drama
See it if you want to see a profound and surreal new play that is surprising and clever in its storytelling.
Don't see it if you prefer clear stories that are not absurd in its concept and humor.
See it if you're into a weird, smart, original and challenging mindf*ck of a play, with the amazing Linda Levin, that will stay in your head for days.
Don't see it if you don't like abstract, surreal, theatre that demands your full attention and a script that is open to many interpretations.
See it if you appreciate mind expanding work, inventive story telling, enjoy Linda Lavin, and seek out off the beaten track presentations.
Don't see it if your taste in theater is Naturalism and Realism, are easily confused, do not like open ended questions.
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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" '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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"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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"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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