9 Kinds of Silence
Ends Oct 08 1h 20m
9 Kinds of Silence
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9 Kinds of Silence NYC Reviews and Tickets

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Thought-provoking, Profound, Confusing, Absorbing, Relevant

About the Show

A Mother and Son confront the cost of nationalism and war in a tense play about language & silence.

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39 Reviews | 2 Followers
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Thought-provoking, Profound, Great writing, Great acting, Absorbing

See it if you like superb acting by Hend, and an incredible vision by Majumdar as both playwright and director in this ever-present piece

Don't see it if you don't like long silences

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Relevant, Slow, Thought-provoking, Confusing, Ambitious

See it if A bureaucratic secretary & a newly released POW meet in a dark reprocessing tent on the outskirts of an endless war zone Strong performances

Don't see it if Majumdar's script (& his direction) create a haunting environment where the horrors of war (both past & present) howl loudly in the silences

Critic Reviews (4)

Theatermania
September 18th, 2023

" '9 Kinds of Silence' is the kind of messy, frustrating work that still deserves to be seen and pondered over."
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Lighting & Sound America
September 19th, 2023

“There are a lot of maybes in 9 Kinds of Silence, largely because the playwright has constructed his nightmare world out of bits of varying world crisis spots, aiming for universality but often ending up with confusion… unlike, say, Harold Pinter's later politically themed plays, like Mountain Language, which evoke a terrifying atmosphere of repression, 9 Kinds of Silence often feels lost in a forest of generalities.”
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TheaterScene.net
September 18th, 2023

"Silence" is engaging and confusing on different levels and in surprising ways. Majumdar constructs the interaction between the protagonists to expose adroitly these contrasting reactions. It is primarily a monologue punctuated by disparate sounds and the silence of one of the players whose non-verbal actions communicate feelings and ideas from within a profound cone of silence until near the end of the play.
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Front Row Center
September 19th, 2023

"This is an incredibly difficult play for any actor to pull off, as silence is not empty space. Silence in its many forms is an elaborate symphony played with a full orchestra to an audience of deaf people. It is no easy task to master both the notes and their spaces and have them both ring out just as true when you’re the only instrument."
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