Shelter in Place (Dream Up 2019) NYC Reviews and Tickets

53%

(6 Reviews)

Positive

Mixed

67%

Negative

33%

Members say

Disappointing, Banal, Insipid, Confusing, Quirky

About the Show

This new short play explores a fictional moment when five people suddenly receive an emergency alert, and everybody panics. Part of Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival.

From the show:

This piece was inspired by the recent bomb scare at the Time Warner Center in New York City when the NYPD issued the directive “shelter in place” to people in the surrounding area. In a time when we are bombarded by news of violence and uprising, and seemingly paralyzed by a tumultuous political climate, we feel the responsibility to explore this moment’s impact. With both humor and critique, we hope to engage with our rapidly-evolving sociality and connect the events of today to what happened yesterday and the risks of our tomorrow.

Member Reviews (6)

Quirky, Cliched, Relevant, Insipid, Disappointing

See it if you do not mind spending a half hour with five unlikeable characters who are workmates mishandling not only the emergency but everything!

Don't see it if you do not like characters acting stupidly when it provides few laughs or you do not like emergency situations made intense by mishandling.

Confusing, Excruciating, Disappointing, Cliched, Banal

See it if you enjoy exploring new micro plays based on current events in an intimate low budget theatre and production

Don't see it if you are impatient with widely variant acting abilities, clumsy script and delivery, stereotype Millennial jargon, personalities, and values,