Eat the Devil NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (30)
See it if you appreciated low budget productions that, w/intelligent creativity, produce an amazing production. Better than a LOT of Broadway shows!
Don't see it if You yearn for a high budget production w/fancy sets, etc.
See it if you are a fan of beautifully designed, expertly played, dystopian near futures.
Don't see it if you are in hibernation from the excesses of today’s (almost) all-permeating cyber-media-entertainment culture. Read more
See it if you like a fast paced, ever-changing show and you're up on current cultural references
Don't see it if you don't enjoy over the top performances or prolonged discussions of sex
See it if A Strangelovian sent-up of near (too near!) future overwhelmed by the digital & Amazon Prime Well acted with a sensational production design
Don't see it if Second subplot aboard an airplane it sadly inane & woefully unnecessary hurts pacing Can get confusing w/multi-subplots Still very inventive
See it if You’re into experimental theatre; the “robot” is great, others are above average;
Don't see it if You’re into conventional themes; you prefer linear storytelling
See it if you like experimental theater with non conventional theme/s.
Don't see it if you prefer easy to follow story telling, musicals and conventional themes.
See it if you enjoy new, experimental work that utilized technology in an interesting way.
Don't see it if you like linear plot/stories
See it if you appreciate non-stop, well blended video and on stage plot, acted well in a tripartite story, some excellent, some over-the-top.
Don't see it if jumping among the three stories would confuse you, or you do not like loud screaming. It was entertaining but a bit long for the subjects.
Critic Reviews (6)
“The gleefully but fatally overloaded satire...A sci-fi, apocalypse, time-travel, airplane-disaster movie riff, it’s a careening sendup of an out-of-control American culture mesmerized by screens...At 100 minutes, this fervent experiment drags — because it’s too convoluted, and because the single philosophical stand it seems to take is for nihilism. It strafes everything in its sights...’Eat the Devil’ is a kind of fiesta bucket, too —jam-packed to overflowing, but its calories are mostly empty.”
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“An exuberant futuristic satire...At a drawn out straight through one hour and 40 minutes, it may be depending on one’s sensibility either hilarious or cumulatively tiresome...Forceful, detailed and smart writing, totally capturing science fiction conventions with an antic spin...The comedy and embedded thoughtfulness of the piece are realized by director Nick Flint’s virtuosic staging that artfully melds the broad performances and accomplished technical elements.”
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“The wild experiment that is ‘Eat The Devil’ is as strangely brewed as you can image by the description. The whole stew is chock full of preposterous political wit and smartly tuned asides about right-wing online fear mongering and YouTube sensationalists. There is gold in some of the statements, but sadly the pot is too full of contrasting ideas and nonsensical modes and equations that the...flight lingers far too long, making me wonder when this journey would over and I could disembark.”
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“A maximalist spoof of the tech-obsessed, sex-crazed, post-truth time in which we live...The result is a farcical bonfire...’Eat The Devil’ does manage to connect the dots into a story that comprises a multitude of sub-plots, locations and characters...The experience is altogether a messy one. But perhaps that’s the point...’Eat The Devil’ has selected a potpourri of wrongs, and they’re all worthy targets...It struggles to challenge an audience whose predilections are likely set in stone.”
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"The comedy they have created is crude and rude for sure. It is also sharply satirical and filled with a barrage of extraordinarily clever one liners skewering today’s America...Schuster is unforgettable as Mia...The performance is physically superb...The entire cast is remarkably fine given the loony antics in this script. They fully commit to these ridiculous characters with realistically drawn cartoons...Flint and his entire creative team have impressively staged this chaotic madness."
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"'Eat the Devil' packs a poignancy punch under what you might initially have written off as mere absurdist comedy belonging on the final-sketch-of-the-evening on Saturday Night Live. But no, there’s something way deeper going on here...The real beauty of the show is that in the throes of folly, the genuine moments of connection, of angst, of loss, and of love, keep us truly grateful for Off-Off Broadway theater at its delicious-est."
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