Poison NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (35)
See it if None of us, in fact, know how we will deal with grief or the guilt of ending the grief. Two fine actors' characters work towards...
Don't see it if ...understanding and forgiving each other. Painful, elegiac, and at times too slow, the actors are sometimes better than the script.
See it if You want to see a human life drama with two fine actors with an uncomfortable subject matter
Don't see it if You are prone to big shows and musicals
See it if you enjoy a show that communicates complex and heart wrenching emotion with two character dialog and minimalist set.
Don't see it if you prefer lighthearted, fluffy entertainment that doesn't make you think or feel sad things.
See it if You want to see a very moving play about loss, grief, healing acted by two great actors.
Don't see it if You don't want to follow a storyline that is complex, full of symbolism and has moments of Becket style pauses.
See it if See great acting in an extremely depressing play. Slow moving and sometimes redundant.
Don't see it if Looking for easy theater or to be cheered up.
See it if you want to see great acting. The script is long-winded and, quite frankly, boring. The pacing is uneven and the staging is limited.
Don't see it if you cannot sit through a rather slow-paced, pedantic look at past relationships. There are no surprises here - just a several moments.
See it if You would enjoy a two character play with serious subject matter.
Don't see it if 90 minutes of two people talking, often angry and emotional, will drive you crazy.
See it if you'd like to watch a couple, years after their divorce, try to deal with the tragedy that precipitated the divorce.
Don't see it if you dislike slow shows. This is two people on a virtually empty set talking about the past -- and pausing a lot.
Critic Reviews (12)
"Vekemans’ writing is extraordinarily good at capturing ordinary people in an extraordinary situation. Her dialogue is often strikingly wanting, in exactly the way you would expect...The usual adjectives for a play about grief don’t apply here. 'Poison' is not gritty, raw, or unapologetic. It is grippingly real...Its understated pain telegraphs its understanding of pain. That is what makes it stand out, and is the strongest argument I can make for going to see it."
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"It is easy to see why 'Poison' is an international hit...'Poison' has some of the best acting I’ve seen in some time. It is viscerally full and humane with none of the inconsistencies that damage one’s suspension of disbelief...Director Erwin Maas did a phenomenal job of crafting the show. He created the space that allowed the story to ebb and swell and gave the necessary room for such an operatic emotional journey."
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"A story of loss, pain and grief with an unspoken complexity...'Poison' explores grief and the different ways people process tragic loss, emphasizing the importance of communication...Though this couple dances around the pain, it is in the moments of silence, the irrational outbursts, and inside the empty spaces that the audience is let in and allowed to see how deeply challenging and complex it is to be human."
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"Any play with only two characters requires a very palpable chemistry on the stage. Laurence and Huppuch deliver that chemistry, with equal amounts of both fine wordless acting and savage delivery of their dialogue. For the audience, it’s like watching a well-choreographed anti-mating ritual. The performances are splendid...'Poison' ultimately honors our expectations—but just like with the characters, it’s a long emotional journey along the way."
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