Audience NYC Reviews and Tickets

80%

(5 Ratings)

Positive

80%

Mixed

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Members say

Clever, Absorbing, Entertaining, Ambitious, Great acting

About the Show

A hybrid puppet-performed adaptation of Vaclav Havel's play translated and directed by Vit Horejs.

This dark comedy abput spying in a brewery, is performed with projected closeups of puppets from security cameras as well as with live actors and traditional marionettes. The play explores the period where Vaclav Havel was made to work in a brewery as penance for writing critically of the Czechoslovak communist government.

The first of Havel's semi-autobiographical one-act plays. Recommended for audiences ages 12 and up.

Show-Score Member Reviews (5)

Great acting, Entertaining, Delightful, Clever, Absorbing

See it if You enjoy an absurdist play with fine acting. It creates the atmosphere of being imprisoned with daily sameness. Very good.

Don't see it if You want a regular play with dialogue that advances a plot. If you do not enjoy a puppet/ human mix. If you do not like to think.

Resonant, Absorbing, Great writing, Great staging, Great acting

See it if "Audience", a dark comedy by V Havel, playwright, political prisoner& 1st pres of the Czech Rep, is abt spying in a brewery where Havel*

Don't see it if Highly recommended to familiarize yourself with the play's background and/or read a 30-page script beforehand. Not x kids. Read more

Fluffy, Great staging, Entertaining, Clever, Absorbing

See it if Liked it the first time I saw it as well. The story of Havel. How governments ( like ours today) watch their people who disagree.

Don't see it if If you don't like puppetry or political stories.

Relevant, Intense, Intelligent, Ambitious, Clever

See it if you like political, adult puppet shows.

Don't see it if you expect a traditional plot and characters.

Confusing, Ambitious

See it if into some interesting puppetry, and a glimpse into the last-century events in a brave country.

Don't see it if well - watching the show, I had no clue what the characters wanted from each other, and why the dialog was so devoid of energy. Read more

Critic Reviews (2)

“ ‘Audience’ was presented with fine acting, powerful multi-dimensional visuals, cultural significance, context and import, rich vigilance, and irony...How one’s eyes were drawn from the actors to the miniatures, screens, marionettes, puppets, and masks was astonishing.”
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“The barrel and puppets are charming and humorous, but they also illuminate the claustrophobia and manipulation of the oppressive regime.”
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Creative team

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre