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.

Cute but needs to be cleaned up

See it if You want to see a fun and interesting comedy with a really big cast

Don't see it if You want a play that is cleaned up and polished or if you have a problem with actors playing multiple roles Read more

Slow

See it if A few funny moments where the art dealer thinks the crap "art" is worth paying top-dollar for.

Don't see it if But most of the 2 hours 15 minutes drags big time, many walkouts at intermission, many yawns. Desperate need of severe editing.

Ambitious, Entertaining, Needs editing, Slow, Disappointing

See it if You don’t mind seeing a show that is really still not ready for prime time ! You enjoy satire, especially when it’s aimed at the A list !

Don't see it if Everything needs to be perfect for you to enjoy a play. You have no interest in the trials and tribulations of the world of modern art.

Absorbing, Slow, Relevant, Funny

See it if U like a story that mixes contemporary art world w/contemporary politics & society. Needs further editing, it’s 2 long & repetitive.

Don't see it if You’re impatient and looking for a fully developed play.

Quirky, Resonant, Entertaining, Clever

See it if Support smaller venues, enjoy a fun night out, see a satire on the A listers, can apprciate the absurd, can laugh at the absurd.

Don't see it if You don't like satire, need a fancy venue, don't like traveling downtown, aren't open to new experiences, expect a fancy set. Read more

Skewers an easy target for two hours, Cliched, Talky and uninvolving, Unimaginative, Paints itself into a corner

See it if you enjoy humor poking fun at wealthy art collectors; your pal is in the cast of SIXTEEN; you don't mind very uncomfortable chairs for 2 hrs

Don't see it if a talky play with limited scope will irk you; you prefer plays with characters you can relate to; you like comedies that deliver big laughs Read more