Gidion's Knot NYC Reviews and Tickets

93%

(4 Ratings)

Positive

100%

Mixed

Negative

Members say

Absorbing, Great acting, Riveting, Intense, Must see

About the Show

The Seeing Place Theater presents this drama about a mother's efforts to understand her son's suicide.

Over the course of a parent/teacher conference, a grieving mother and an emotionally overwhelmed primary school teacher have a fraught conversation about the tragic suicide of the mother's son, Gidion. Gidion may have been bullied severely—or he may have been an abuser. As his story is slowly uncovered, the women try to reconstruct a satisfying explanation for Gidion's act and come to terms with excruciating feelings of culpability.

Show-Score Member Reviews (3)

88%

Riveting, Great acting, Absorbing

See it if you want a drama with 2 great spellbinding performances with an absorbing edge of the seat story to tell relevant to today's headlines.

Don't see it if you want to spend a light enjoyable evening at the theater that will not tax your brain or your emotions..This play is riveting.

100%

Riveting, Must see, Masterful, Great acting, Absorbing

See it if You enjoy riveting theater and don’t shy away from tough subject matter. You want to see some of the best acting you’ve ever seen

Don't see it if The subject of suicide is triggering

91%

Ambitious, Great acting, Absorbing, Intense, Relevant

See it if you like compelling, intense, thought-provoking work.

Don't see it if you can't handle violent imagery.

Critic Reviews (2)

"In Johnna Adams’s intense drama 'Gidion’s Knot,' being given a compelling production, two wary women – one the mother of a fifth grade boy, the other, his teacher, meet up after the boy has committed suicide...The two actresses, under Brandon Walker’s direction, give nuanced and emotionally honest performances of complicated characters...In the end, there is no catharsis, no moment of weepy bonding – a brief one-sided hug tells us all we need to know."
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"That suspension from school was the reason for Gidion’s suicide struck me as nonsense...It contains a brilliant performance by Erin Cronican, who always convinces me that she actually is the character she is playing. As for Ms. Clark, I could not understand how she could read that horrible composition without screaming at the mother about who she’d made her son...Interesting but difficult to watch...Troubling and affecting. "
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