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Recent Alien Abductions
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Thought-provoking, Resonant, Absorbing, Compelling, Intricate
About the show
This New York premiere from PlayCo explores how families—and societies—are haunted by their pasts. More…
In Cortiñas’ play, small gestures and off-handed comments slowly reveal the colonial, racist, misogynist, and homophobic dynamics that constrain possibility in the lives of the characters. These power imbalances have been left to fester for so long that they create the alienating nightmare at the story’s core.
Member Reviews (3)
MEMBERS SAY:
Thought-provoking, Resonant, Absorbing, Compelling, Intricate
"It’s a funny monologue, ingeniously layered and shadowed with pain. In Cortiñas’s 'Recent Alien Abductions' — it is a kind of show within the show, touching on cultural dominion and the caprices of memory, but also on trauma and erasure, both personal and sociopolitical....The production hasn’t ...
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"Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas has woven a delicate spider’s web in 'Recent Alien Abductions.' His heartbroken thriller feels both gossamer frail and weirdly strong; even in a sometimes saggy production, it manages to snare your imagination....The energy drain of the first thirty minutes is a problem, a...
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"The opening speech counts for roughly twelve percent of this brief work -- it is listed as Act I of an intermissionless three-act play -- and it goes on and on, to diminishing effect. But hang on, for playwright Cortiñas is setting us up; without it, 'Recent Alien Abductions' might not be the af...
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"Devilishly enigmatic and culminating in an eerie denouement...'Recent Alien Abductions' confidentially veers tonally, seemingly goes off on tangents and holds interest for much of its off-kilter 90 minutes...In directing his own work, Cortiñas makes full use of the wonders of technical elements ...
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