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Confusing, Absorbing, Pretentious, Ambitious, Boring
About the show
The Play Company presents the U.S. debut of German playwright Maria Milisavljevic's tense and haunting new thriller about a search for a missing woman. More…
Karla’s been missing since Monday. The police are indifferent, so her friends launch a search of their own. But soon secrets surface, and threaten the safety they’ve worked so hard to find in a new home. This poetic thriller, winner of the prestigious Kleist Award, leads us through a world where people make their own justice, to the brink of irrevocable loss.
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MEMBERS SAY:
Confusing, Absorbing, Pretentious, Ambitious, Boring
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Absorbing, Edgy, Ambitious, Entertaining, Confusing
February 1st, 2016
See it if You appreciate creative staging.
Don't see it if Are a living room set type of person.
"This poetic drama qualifies as severely arty, it is also genuinely artful. If you bear with its more fanciful flourishes, it will take you places you didn’t expect to go...I think it’s safe to say that 'Abyss' could have been written only by someone who is young and European. But there’s a probi...
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"'Abyss' never makes anything dramatically engaging out of its mysterious scenario. The script is a dense web of memories, dreams, allusions, and insinuations, all of them pieces in a puzzle of political and spiritual exile. The playwright's narrative method is deliberately cloudy at times; for e...
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"Promoted as a 'poetic thriller,' 'Abyss' depends upon lyrical text, opacity, and, to a degree, metaphor and an abstract narrative. However, 'Abyss' is lengthy and requires an intense focus in order to follow and find the story’s nuances. While this type of writing could be magical and thought pr...
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"The murder mystery offers rich enough sport once the elliptical text finds its footing, but in the context of the current world refugee crisis, I found that Milisavljevic’s oblique commentary on Germany’s contemporary ethnic patchwork provided more gripping distractions...The three-strong cast t...
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