Catapult! NYC Reviews and Tickets

62%

(21 Reviews)

Positive

38%

Mixed

52%

Negative

10%

Members say

Slow, Disappointing, Ambitious, Entertaining, Cliched

About the Show

Theater for the New City presents a screwball comedy of the art market: its jargon, its people, its economics, and its overnight sensations.

The two-act comedy starts out in a gallery under renovation, with a charming and loquacious plumber, placing an assembly of pipes on a sculpture pedestal created by a sassy and articulate female woodworker. She embellishes this "sculpture" with a lipstick-kissed fragment of mirror and the plumber mockingly christens it "Fluidic Rapture." It is harmless fun until a wealthy, matronly trendsetter sweeps into the gallery, pronounces their assemblage a conceptual masterpiece and insists on adding it to her collection. The two construction workers are thereby catapulted into the stratosphere of the art market, assisted by the opportunistic gallery owner. The ensuing play becomes a comedy on the jargon and puffery of the art scene.

Member Reviews (21)

Insipid, Slow, Quirky, Confusing, Ambitious

See it if you want to see a large cast, in a long production, giving it a go to be entertaining on issues of the art world. Some good moments.

Don't see it if you want a well edited and acted play. There are good elements here in need of refinement. Most acting more suited to screen than stage.