Darkness After Night: Ukraine NYC Reviews and Tickets
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See it if you like well-meaning theater on current topics. Sound and lights went well for small stage production.
Don't see it if you expect to grasp all that is presented as much is hard to hear among the many scene changes and characters.
See it if Although a n important topic, the script was poring directed & acted.
Don't see it if Unfortunately this was amateurish & disjointed production.
See it if You haven't heard enough about the war in Ukraine via the media and don't mind seeing that tragedy exploited for artistic gain.
Don't see it if You want genuine insight into the war in Ukraine, with a more nuanced perspective than what is shown day after day in the media.
See it if Good story in theory... just not good. Bad writing, directing and banal.
Don't see it if If you want a well written play.
Critic Reviews (2)
"Darkness" unfolds in many very short scenes with some confusing transitions. Dubashin, the traitor to Russia, finally gets to confront Number One in a knock-down personal battle. The only thing that can be said for this denouement is that it is wishful thinking of the highest order.
There is more than a whiff of a vanity production here, leavened by Morrow’s “good intentions.” Morrow is, perhaps, a tad self-indulgent to have put himself in the action hero part of a military do-gooder and he could use a dramaturg who could shape the disparate scenes into a well-oiled whole.
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"Morrow’s ”kaleidoscope” metaphor aptly describes the psychic shifts of focus that brought us, sometimes quickly, to scenes of romance, violence, execution, confrontation, political intrigue, espionage, war zones, and towards an aspirant denouement."
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