Small Craft Warnings NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (48)
See it if You enjoy plays with complex character development and are a fan of Tennessee Williams.
Don't see it if You dislike soap operas.
See it if See if you love Tennessee Williams
Don't see it if Don't see it if you do not like Tennessee Williams.
See it if You love everything TW wrote. You want to enjoy being depressed for a couple hours, but in the best kind of way.
Don't see it if You can't stand yelling. There's a lot of it.
See it if You want to see one of Williams less-produced plays wonderfully enacted by a good cast bringing to life a time of his own experience.
Don't see it if you don't like plays with tension throughout - every character here brings his/her problems to the fore, including monologues.
See it if You are a TW fan. Fine acting. Nice set and theater. Some monologues took too long.
Don't see it if You want a happy ending.
See it if TW’s lyrical poetic prose threaded into a story interspersed by monologs of lost souls who hang out in a beach bar in the low-rent district.
Don't see it if You dislike cramped seating in a musty theatre, or are bothered by troubled people propping each other up and seeking solace in alcohol.
See it if you want to see a lesser known play by one of the greatest American playwrights.
Don't see it if you do not want to see a play that deals with lost souls.
See it if for one of the playwright's later, lesser seen works, about a cast of misfits who bare their souls in a small dingy California bar
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Critic Reviews (4)
"Nearly fifty years after its premiere, its frank discussion of female sexuality and gay liberation seem groundbreaking for its time...Regeneration’s production doesn’t get everything quite right – the hair-trigger turns in and out of melodrama aren’t always apparent and some of the more intricate ensemble scenes come across as under-rehearsed. Even so, the opportunity to see this play should appeal to completists and the curious alike."
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“Rather than tell one cohesive plot from beginning to end, the play depicts multiple characters and their individual threads...The fact that this play preserves that individuality of the characters – while making them all come across as people with compelling backstories – is a big part of what makes it worth watching...Maisonett and Vath turned in particularly compelling performances...Morafetis steals the show."
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"We see all the characters solo at different points of the play. Director Barnaby Edwards does an excellent job of this...'Small Craft Warnings' is a different kind of Williams, we see at the end of his career how he incorporated homosexuality into his writings. Aside from switching to California and away from the South, we see the same down and out people. The hopes, the dreams and delusions are still in this one, however. This play works nicely."
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“Offers wonderful characters, who perform a kind of psychic strip tease, as though their lives depend on it--and they may. With self-irony and humor, the balm of the playwright, this cast brings a classic into our time. They are, like us, in difficult situations--at sea in fragile crafts. At the end of this show, I felt we all weathered the storm and will go out in a new day.”
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