The End of Eddy
The End of Eddy
Closed 1h 30m NYC: Brooklyn
78% 7 reviews
78%
(7 Ratings)
Positive
86%
Mixed
14%
Negative
0%
Members say
Great acting, Intelligent, Informative, Absorbing, Sanitized

About the Show

Based on the autobiographical novel, this gay coming-of-age story follows Édouard Louis as he is bullied relentlessly, growing up in poverty in working-class France.

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Critic Reviews (4)

The New York Times
November 18th, 2019

"Fleeing Home, but Not Homophobia: Two plays based on the autobiographical novels of Édouard Louis put the problem of violence against gay men in a larger social context."
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New York Magazine / Vulture
November 19th, 2019

"What Makes the Man: Édouard Louis’s 'History of Violence' and 'The End of Eddy'"
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Theatre is Easy
November 18th, 2019

"The repetitive use of this storytelling device becomes tiresome, much like the direct address style of the piece. The dark territory the book explores is merely hinted at, and the additions that Carter makes…feel unhelpful, even unnecessary, given the well-rounded source material."
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New York Theater
November 19th, 2019

"Parts resemble a book report for school, but won't be mistaken for a story hour because of the inventive stagecraft and the rawness of the stories -- relentless bullying, deadened people in a dying factory town, his sad and funny efforts to 'be a man,' his sexual experimenting."
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