Fur

See it if you're looking for somewhere to take a nap.

Don't see it if you're looking for even a mildly entertaining show

See it if you enjoy dark, joyless, apocalyptic settings and experiences. Tried hard to find meaning at any level and failed

Don't see it if you don't want to have to see a really good actor stuck in a cage in a distracting fur suit

Also Honestly I love this theater and there must be some reason they put on this poorly written play. Wish I could have discovered it.... Read more Read less

See it if You enjoy going to plays even if they are not popular

Don't see it if You like musicals and comedies

See it if you are masochistic

Don't see it if No ifs; don't see it

See it if Staging is good; great use of the basement space to show, well, a basement. Acting isn't bad and the play almost feels alive for 30min or so

Don't see it if The script is hopeless with the writing style a middle schooler would be ashamed of. Constant repetitions of banalities that lead nowhere.

See it if You'd like a nap.

Don't see it if Just don't see it.

See it if You are friends with the playwright/cast. Go if you’re an aspiring writer and think you’ll never get produced. There is always an audience.

Don't see it if If you like cohesive story telling and compelling acting. The writing left a lot to be desired. Very disjointed and indulgent. Hard pass.

Also Really friends, this was a rough one. Never mind the no intermission that prevents making an escape, or the lack of story continuity, but this production felt about an hour too long.

The dialogue was so disjointed that it felt like the actors were speaking mostly in quotations and acting at us rather than living through anything.

Indulgent. Incoherent. Virtually unfollowable (made up a word, I’m sure the playwright did too one several occasions...it worked for Billy Shakes, this not so much).

I give the actors a pass because they had very poor material to work with. The tech element was nice and minimal and I did love the musical scoring. But I took this one for the team so you don’t have to. Don’t say you’re old pal Dodger didn’t warn ya.... Read more Read less

See it if If you care what you see on stage. Painful... cannibalism, confusing plot.

Don't see it if If you respect your time. This was painful to watch. 145 with no break and a story that made no sense.

See it if you enjoy interesting concepts I thought this one had promise but i found little to praise beyond the sound, lights and hard working actors

Don't see it if you want a cohesive story that holds your interest. Fur costume was more distracting than beneficial to the character. Love/sex unbelievable

See it if you're a Migdalia Cruz devotee; you are okay with a complicated plot that never completely gels

Don't see it if you want performances or direction that can help you navigate this unnecessarily complex plot. The world isn't sufficiently built, and the

Also relationships don't feel earned.

See it if your best friend is involved in "Fur"; you like to support indie theatre; you're intrigued by side-show characters -- like the Bearded Lady

Don't see it if you like well-made plays w/ snappy, memorable dialogue, relatable characters, or a traditional narrative arc; you enjoy happy endings

Also In Cruz's woeful, jejune, stillborn 80-min. mash-up, "Beauty & the Beast" meets "The Collector" (1963 novel by John Fowles) -- though stripped of the French fairytale's allegorical charm or the ironic-absurdist fatalism of Fowles' Kafkaesque novel.

Fairytales and beast-fables often use physical ugliness as an allegorical device in service of a moral. Ex: In "Beauty & the Beast," a magic spell turns an arrogant prince into the hideous furry Beast -- until he learns to love and be lovable.

"Fur" is free of allegorical tropes. Citrona (Monica Steuer), afflicted with acute hirsutism, is kidnapped, caged & fed live animals by Michael (Danny Bolero), hoping "Beauty" will come to love him.

In Scene 1, before we see Citrona, Nena (Ashley Marie Ortiz) has fallen head over heels in lust with Michael, who spends 80-min. rebuffing Nena, then using her as a willing servant to hunt small prey to nourish Citrona.

The minutes crept by very slowly.... Read more Read less

See it if You want to seat trough almost two excruciating hours of total nonsense action about a “ surreal “ love triangle.

Don't see it if You want to see a play with some meaning, any kind of meaning. This one is a total train wreck and don’t get me started with the acting.

See it if You want to see two very good actresses and a fine actor with some pretty cool lighting. Those are the only reasons.

Don't see it if If you don't like bestiality, brief cannibalism, a plot that goes nowhere, 2 hours with no intermission, seemingly no point to this show.

Also Who knew that you could make a love triangle even worse--by having one of the characters covered in fur and calling her an animal. I'm still confused about the universe this story was set in. None of the characters were likeable. [Spoilers ahead]: We have the woman desperately in love with a blatantly disgusting man who doesn't love her back; we have the disgusting man who captures this woman covered in fur because he's in love with her and wants to have sex with her; and we have the woman covered in fur who's desperately in love with the first woman because she's...pretty? Massive rape dynamics with the man and the fur woman. Altogether gross. I think they were going for some sort of race/ethnicity metaphor but it was totally lost. Also not for the faint of heart--the woman covered in fur eats very realistic looking animals on stage and also part of a human. Unpleasant. After about the 70 minute mark I started asking myself 'when will this end' but it just kept going and going.... Read more Read less

See it if You enjoy overlong, overwritten yet underdeveloped bestial rape fantasy horror telenovelas where exposition passes as dialogue.

Don't see it if Your time is of value to you.

See it if No reason. Other than the lighting, set design and music, it's an atrocious, absurd drek.

Don't see it if You value you your time, money, and faith in the theater.

Also An attempt at dark comedy that falls flat. The relationships are not believable. Ok, suspend the believability for sec, the jokes are not funny. Ok also suspend the need for "comedy" for a sec, the dark ruminations on life and love with too many monologues to the audience are trite and unoriginal. Just when can get worse, in comes a cringe worthy masturbation scene. Almost wonder if piece was written while author was on drugs. A show that's hard to explain what you just saw.

Ps. Ran one hour and 53 minutes. No intermission. Pass!... Read more Read less

See it if A dark fairy tale about hunger, desire and the danger of indulging one’s lust is your craving.

Don't see it if You’d have a hard time sitting through inert, non-sequitar monologues, non-events and indulgent, ungrounded performances.

See it if You enjoy twenty minutes of story telling stretched out into two hours.

Don't see it if You don't have two hours