Eat the Devil NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (30)
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 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 want a sci fi type of play. If you are able to follow all the different things...stories going on inside the play.
Don't see it if At about 110 minutes, to long, too confusing. Writer should have stuck with one plot, not several.
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 keep up and cringe at current generation tech trends. Also if you like shows like South Park
Don't see it if If you want to see a thought provoking drama. This is a rip at the current generation
See it if you enjoy camp, cultural critique, comedy, queerness, or John Waters.
Don't see it if you need naturalism or realism.
See it if You like unusual presentations, some loud dialog, profanity and some suggestive innuendos. Main actress portraying the robot was excellent.
Don't see it if you want a suspenseful plot as the synopsis suggests. It was clever but not as engaging as I expected. Most of the acting was above average.
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.
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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