Latter Days NYC Reviews and Tickets
Member Reviews (28)
See it if Video gamer style mythmaking of the most banal kind is your thing.
Don't see it if A cheesy bargain basement knockoff of a Beckett type theater of the absurd play would send you running for the exit.
See it if you enjoy intimate settings with two captivating actors who carry the show start to finish.
Don't see it if you want a profound show and a clear ending.
See it if you are a skeptic, enjoy willing suspension of disbelief in order to think, are okay with a slow pace
Don't see it if you are not patient for slow pacing, are easily religiously offended, or are looking for something light.
See it if The acting was good but I can hardly recommend such a vile piece of work just to see it well acted.
Don't see it if period...just don't see it.
See it if You know someone involved w/ the production. You think a man ton a toilet is high art.
Don't see it if You value good acting & playwriting. You're not in the show's inner circle-several unfunny bits got big laughs from a few in audience.
See it if you want to see a nice little small show in a tiny space. Everything about the show is ok but not great. The younger actor does a nice job
Don't see it if you need something elaborate. This is blackbox and blackbox only.
See it if Your idea of fun is watching an overweight man sit on a toilet seat for 62 minutes and occasionally relieve himself.
Don't see it if You want to avoid an extremely slow paced & totally pointless show. I think this is the worst show I have ever seen.
See it if The biblical, Shakespearean, densely poetic language was very compelling, but I saw the end coming within the first 5 mins.
Don't see it if Thank goodness the bodily fluids only looked realistic vs smelling so, because I was in the front row and that was bad enough. Read more
Critic Reviews (4)
"Ben Beckley's 'Latter Days' feels like an early draft of a Samuel Beckett play...It's not easy to avoid the masters when you're trying to craft something short and sharp...'Latter Days' is well performed, but Beckley's play is too much of-a-piece with the works it emulates—at its worst, it can feel derivative...The garbage-royalty motif is reminiscent of Alfred Jarry's 'Ubu Roi,' and we've seen these little rituals and abuses between Beckett's all-too-similar Hamm and Clov."
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"An absurdist play that is strong on form but less so on substance…There is no faulting the excellent performances of the two actors, or of Jess Chayes's direction...Yet 'Latter Days' feels sketchy, like an academic exercise in dramatic writing that combines Elizabethan phrasing with the theatrically absurd planes of existence of Beckett and Ionesco. There simply isn't enough context to sustain what is essentially an allegorical tale about the fanatically obsessed leading the gullible."
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“The trademark Beckettian rhythm and language is at play here, eliciting the same kind of laughter that feels wrong when it happens. Chayes directs and her simplicity and precision shines…It’s far too reminiscent of the Beckett world without being different enough to warrant its necessity. Although its themes of grand delusion and co-dependent power relationships couldn’t feel truer.”
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“An inventive take on the apocalyptic genre…It takes a bit of time to get into this play, but once you accept its given circumstances, the drama between the two men is utterly gripping…’Latter Days’ would never succeed without an immensely talented and committed pair of performers, and there is no doubt that Tony Torn's fragile dignity and Will Dagger's utter earnestness sell the piece entirely. But what really makes this production stand out is its impeccable design.”
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