Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag NYC Reviews and Tickets

"Ms. Kempson has always had major ideas informing her deceptively serious, stealthily intelligent work. But here the integration of philosophy and critical theory into performance seems less assured. The play perks up a bit when a Mesopotamian god appears...Maybe the play needs another draft, or maybe it needs some more time in the rehearsal room, or maybe it needs Ms. Kempson, an actress of cracked intensity, performing in it."
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"'Let Us Now Praise' is unsteady: Sometimes shoot-the-moon strategies work; sometimes they spin out of control. Despite elaborate costumes, the play looks unfinished, and the downstairs concrete venue strands the actors. Kempson’s work crackles with strange energies, but this time it hasn’t organized itself into a lightning strike."
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"Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, and consistently bizarre...I’m not sure who its intended audience is, but I found it by turns hilarious, moving, infuriating, and overlong...'Let Us Now...' does not seem to give a damn about anything anyone would expect of it, which is either its greatest virtue or its chief weakness. You will laugh, you will shrug, and then you will want to go to grad school."
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"A quirky, uneven production...When the lights go up in this age of the ubiquitous image, playwright Kempson’s hope is that our own eyes will be clear of illusions, à la Sontag: "This very passivity of the photographic record is photography’s ‘message,’ its aggression.” Did we need Sontag – and Kempson - to tell us that anymore?"
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"The show is sensational. 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. & Perf. Co. gives us a game-changing group helmed by a resident magician. Maybe, like me, you leave the theater without words to describe your otherworldly evening. You came for entertainment and leave in meditation. It may take a while for the show’s lovely logic to develop in the darkroom of your mind."
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