High Noon

See it if you want to see an expert cast tackle a tradition and make it their own. Superb lighting, perfect setting. great costumes

Don't see it if Only one hour (could be a positive for some)..

See it if you like quick, intense shows with a tight ensemble.

Don't see it if you want to see a musical, or a show with a tidy resolution.

Also Great sound design, haunting staging and worth it for the surprising first moments of the show.... Read more Read less

See it if you’d like to see a Western that blows the genre open, but not before it pays the original its deepest respects.

Don't see it if for you the Western is sacred, or you can’t bear to see the original film tampered with, or you’re looking for a conventional play.

Also “High Noon” succeeds in 2 infrequently compatible realms. It’s a totally satisfying aesthetic object. A textured, almost incessant soundtrack includes an abstract shootout, mournful music, & a desolate wind that can feel like it’s enveloping the theater. A rough wood set is painted white, just walls & upstage bar. It’s saloon as mausoleum, bar as sarcophagus. But the play also keeps you on the edge of your seat. 10 dark-clad characters roam as a skeletal plot of primal power unfolds. A man, looking ahead to likely death, asks friends & lovers, old & new, to make a stand with him. Deferring a final shootout, this “High Noon,” puts on trial the power of the gun. Though an aestheticized “shootout”— white lights flash to bursts of sound—opens the play & 8 male characters pack obvious heat, no shot is fired. We’re shown instead how a cycle of violent retribution gets hammered into a town’s routine so deeply that any other way of doing things seems impossible—& we’re left to face it.... Read more Read less

See it if Great acting , not long. They tell the story in a refreshing way. Yes it a western.

Don't see it if You want active and flash.

Also They do a great job in telling the story. The stage all white and the cast in dark clothes. All the cast did a great job. Some younger people in the audience didn't know the movie, and that OK. You don't need to know the movie to enjoy this play.... Read more Read less

See it if you enjoy seeing a great ensemble at work. Minimalistic slick design. Nothing happens and everything happens at once. Superior sound design

Don't see it if you prefer realism in theater. You have trouble following rapid switching between the scenes.

See it if You like character studies, western themes, great staging, political intrique

Don't see it if confusion, lots of dialogue, my husband fell asleep, disappointing plot & ending

See it if you want to see a first-rate ensemble in an incredibly affecting exploration of the American West, human mortality, and nihilism.

Don't see it if you are too attached to the movie--this isn't your ordinary Western...