Plano

See it if you're open to something new/different. Fast-paced, wildly imaginative, funny, scary. Deals w/ gender gap, sisters, mothers, marriage, faith

Don't see it if you want cohesion, but fun to watch. Loses some steam along the way. Needs cuts/shaping. Strg acting; gr set. Some gr lines/insights.

See it if If you want to see a new work or a play as opposed to a musical.

Don't see it if If you want like ashow that has thought process and stay on point with that ptocess. This show has many thoughts not a lot of followthrough.

See it if Wild, creative absurdism. Fast paced surprising dialog. 3 sisters are haunted & connected by weird manifestations of male presence.

Don't see it if You don't enjoy weird non-linear plays that can't be understood literally. An unusual satirical perspective on the sexes.

See it if Arbery's verbal gymnastics highlight this mash-up of The Three Sisters meeting Kafka Three top-notch female leads help ground the absurdity

Don't see it if Vibrant, zany first half slowly spins out of control into confusion & chaos before coming full circle. Yet funny set pieces hold interest

See it if you like when innovation in the theater is more than flash & cuts to the level of consciousness.

Don't see it if you’re looking for a traditional, naturalistic family play.

Also “Plano” is effortlessly innovative down to its theatrical bones. Yet Will Arbery brings his audience with him every step of the brave new way, deploying his witchcraft to tell a story. A unified set, a porch in Texas, helps keep things from flying apart. At the center are 3 adult sisters, familiar, caring yet weirdly unfiltered. From the start: time is out of joint. We skip months in a blink. The sisters live with shared past traumas & fears for the future in 1 theatrical eternal now. They each have a man. The 2 husbands divide psychically to pursue shadow lives with other lovers in dark mythic Plano. The youngest sister has a masked ghost lover. Their interactions evoke dance, wrestling & sexual assault. Eventually mom shows up to help her troubled daughters. But, by turns brutally honest & utterly unable to face basic family facts, she’s the most splintered of all. Things don’t get resolved. Yet the audience roars its enthusiasm for this powerful, funny, unsettling play.... Read more Read less

See it if you like experimental theater - this is loaded with lots of good moments, maybe too many as everything passes very quickly with great acting

Don't see it if you want a plot with a reasonable start, middle and end. This is a lot of action that skips around, holding your interest w/little result.

See it if you are looking for something very unexpectedly different, experimental and fun.

Don't see it if you are not ready to go with the sometimes very strange flow.

See it if you can!! It's really such a unique piece of theatre that has to be seen to be believed.

Don't see it if you've never been a person. (Oh, you are a person? Go see this show.)

See it if Maybe not your traditional family, three sister that have a lot of weirdness in their life.

Don't see it if If you want a simple story. This story has a lot going on.

Also The three lead actresses were excellent.

See it if You like theater with a "downtown" vibe & find humor in lines like "We're getting married later. It's later. We're married" .

Don't see it if You'd find 3 crazy women beating up a guy & killing him (using a jar of tomato sauce to knock him in his man parts) crude & stupid.

Also Well acted show with very impressive set (big house, fake grass, etc). Wore out its welcome; way too much banal talk (but at a rapid fire pace). Started very late at 8.11pm and ended at 9.28pm... Read more Read less

See it if Jumping in time, mother appearing at the end proves incapable of successfully launching 3 daughters in life and preparing them for marriage.

Don't see it if You want a logical, linear plot and don’t like it when later means now. Somehow everyone muddles through and turns out sort of OK.

See it if you like the idea of striving for meaning but ultimately being permitted to not care. Interesting enough that I don't regret seeing it.

Don't see it if 3 neurotic, inconsolable sisters revolving around the men (not) in their lives. Chars never connect w/ each other, rarely w/ audience.

Also Fun Twilight Zone vibe, but Plano's most innovative in how it embodies its impatience/contempt for the tedium of female emotional struggle (even alluding to Medea). Sympathy's beyond reach when there’s a tendency to fast-forward thru everything other than the centrality of men, a frustration at the inability to talk about anything else, & a lack of surprise when they end up pretty much where they started.

*Spoilers if you really want to know*
The main conceit is that the husbands have, if not fulfilling lives, at least more pleasurable variety of experience through their magical ability to fracture & multiply themselves. (They are Bunburyists.) The sisters—for reasons not really explored—are too dumb/incapable to figure out how to do this. They get in their own way, perpetuate their miseries. Sisterhood/service/profession are no solace for being unimaginatively committed to 1 prescribed body that determines 1 identity. Those unwilling to be it all don't deserve to have it all.... Read more Read less

See it if Theater of the absurd, bordering on nonsensical. Time and location shifts makes it even more bizarre. The actors are able to tame the lunacy

Don't see it if Family dysfunction taken to fantastic lengths. I saw the film "Us" the same day. Some "Plano" characters are also doubles and very weird.

See it if A play that is odd and humorous. I think the playwright is the only person who can intelligently describe what we see onstage. Great cast

Don't see it if You are looking for a traditional play with an easy to follow story. Clubbed Thumb promotes plays that are" strange,funny, and provocative."

Also This play certainly fill the bill.

See it if You enjoy shows where the playwright experiments with storytelling. You like quirky downtown theatre about relationships.

Don't see it if You like a clear script written in everyday speech. This is a slightly heightened and twisted everyday speech

See it if You have an adventurous and open mind. Like energetic and mindbending surrealism. Have an interest in plays about family dynamics.

Don't see it if Need linearity and clarity, Are frustrated by surrealism.

Also Fine actors in this how -- especially the sisters and mother.

See it if you want to see groundbreaking, utterly original material, ​unlike anything you've seen before.

Don't see it if you don't like super fast-paced dialogue, surrealism, magical realism and things that just can't be explained.

Also This show which starts out as a simple three sisters story takes twists and plays with the temporal reality of both the written form as well as the acted and performed form. It is clever beyond belief, it is funny, incredibly high energy, is flawlessly acted and so utterly original. Truly a gem.... Read more Read less

See it if Funny, clever, 3 brilliant actresses. Great set. Some interesting choreographed scenes. Plenty of weirdness. Sort of a modern fable.

Don't see it if You need to "get it" You're tired. Characters talk in manic pace and the action moves even faster. Takes a while to adjust to the rhythm.

See it if Well acted, sometimes funny but weird, odd, confusing. How ? Why? What? At first edged and intriguing but then “ enough already”

Don't see it if Want a clear, plot, story or purpose

See it if Great cast. especially the 3 sisters, tell a story in quick flash time spanning many years. You have to suspend some belief,but worth it.

Don't see it if You don't like story telling that jumps back and forth in time.

See it if You like new off Broadway plays. You like absurdist Theatre.

Don't see it if You want a straight forward plot and narrative.

Also I was on board for the first few minutes of fast past absurdity, but it quickly got stale. It was unclear to me what we were supposed to take away from this play.... Read more Read less

See it if first prewiev and no glitches, good work by all actors,crazy but interesting show, relatives interaction in unique way, funny and intense

Don't see it if Experimental theatre is not for you, do not like mistique and want realistic plot and happy (kind off) ending

See it if You’re into humanity hidden behind absurdity; great acting by leading actors (gosh the pace is fast!); full house with standing ovation

Don't see it if You’re not into downtown experimental theatres; you prefer realism works; you only enjoy happy stories

See it if you like fast paced and ridiculous dialogue exploring family neurosis in an absurd and surreal way. Like to debate what it means.

Don't see it if mind that it may take a bit to figure out the rhythm of the play, that not everything may sense, and the meaning is possibly ambiguous.

Also So fair warning they skip ahead in time when they say lets talk about it later... its later. you'll figure it out quickly but may be confused for a second until you do. Dialogue is very fast, this play probably fits as many words into a 70 minute play as is nearly possibly. I enjoyed throughout I think I have a pretty good idea of what the play was about but I'm not sure, you will likely have a very different idea. This is paly that would be fun to discuss.... Read more Read less

See it if You want to see a fast pace, dynamic, absurd, very funny, experimental theater with great cast with strong female characters.

Don't see it if You do not like sexual referral, cursing, screaming, lots of family dynamics.