See it if intellectually written; themes and elements (even same lines) echo between two dimensions; powerful acting; great directing, esp. last scene
Don't see it if simplistic staging (sufficient and efficient); Guess watching a play is just an experience too personal.. glad I wasn’t scared off by review
See it if You like plays with story lines that make you think.
Don't see it if If you don't like plays with a complicated story line.
See it if you are interested in hearing a strong, particular, somewhat odd voice from Brazil.
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See it if thoughtful, well-acted and directed theater with a twist interests you.
Don't see it if you are looking for simple narrative or melodrama.
See it if You like a nuce ensemble piece and you can get there early enough to read the synopsis on the postcard
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See it if A lyrical twin tale as directed in a 50's style by a Spanish artiste. I can't explain, but I liked so much of this.
Don't see it if You seek straightforward
See it if you like non-traditional storytelling
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See it if You like to see an intense, greatly written play goes between times/characters that their stories are interwined in a unique way.
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"The supernatural scenario is a little like something one might find on an eerie episode of Alfred Hitchcock's old TV anthology. Unfortunately, it all comes off as fairly stilted and heavy-handed. This is due in part to some of the flowery language that Nogueira uses ('I have the strength of a river to drown my sobbing heart with a loving rage'). But it also has to do with Ortman's direction, which eschews realism in favor of a highly self-conscious theatricality."
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"The spooky and melodramatic aspects of the plot, and the two characters’ surreal pile-up of connections, are less engaging than the astute social observations the playwright threads throughout the piece...Nogueira, a playwright of some renown in Brazil who’s a newcomer to New York, still manages to land some astute and amusing comments about living in New York."
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“Is one story real and one imagined? Are both real?...If one does not come away with an answer, 'Real' at least shows Nogueira’s gift for poetic lyricism, and the questions he raises linger. It’s not a straightforward piece of theater, but it’s often fascinating, and it’s refreshing to find a theatrical voice as iconoclastic as Nogueira’s."
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