The Mountains Look Different
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The Mountains Look Different
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The Mountains Look Different NYC Reviews and Tickets

80%
(93 Ratings)
Positive
93%
Mixed
6%
Negative
1%
Members say
Great acting, Absorbing, Thought-provoking, Great staging, Intense

About the Show

The Mint presents a new staging of Micheál mac Liammóir's 1948 Irish drama, which tells the story of Bairbre’s return home to Ireland, after a dozen hard years in London working the streets.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (93)

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257 Reviews | 26 Followers
79
Edgy, Thought-provoking, Difficult

See it if you enjoy relationship plays; you don't need happy endings; you like figuring out what's going to happen

Don't see it if you have difficulty with Irish accents and mumbled speech; you don't enjoy plays dealing with dysfunctional families

414 Reviews | 70 Followers
79
Dated, Uneven, Thought-provoking, Entertaining, Absorbing

See it if Irish dramas, morality & period pieces, story of strong determined woman trying to overcome her past, great performances by Meaney & Horgan

Don't see it if disappointing set including the background mountains; some cliched local characters late in play; Irish accents by some hard to understand* Read more

144 Reviews | 38 Followers
79
Ahead of its time., Melodramatic., Absorbing, Great acting

See it if You appreciate great acting and a well-made play with a haunting quality.

Don't see it if You have trouble with accents. You dislike melodrama. You prefer happy endings. Read more

228 Reviews | 42 Followers
78
Great sets, Great writing, Great staging, Great acting

See it if you can deal with depressing stories, you can deal with actors who mumble, you can deal with Irish accents

Don't see it if you want to feel happy, you like to hear every word, you want characters you can relate to Read more

311 Reviews | 45 Followers
77
Thought-provoking, Intelligent, Intense

See it if The Mint revivals are always worth seeing & this, 1st performed in 1948, must have been a shocker at the time. Well done Mint Theater!

Don't see it if You prefer newly written plays or musicals.

477 Reviews | 121 Followers
77
Uneven, Melodramatic, Cliched, Dated, Absorbing

See it if you are a fan of The Mint and their revivals of obscure Anglo/Irish plays.

Don't see it if you don't like Irish accents or if you have a low tolerance for melodrama. Read more

255 Reviews | 13 Followers
75
Intense, Good acting, Interesting premise, Thought-provoking, Entertaining

See it if You enjoy a good revival of a play that must have been pretty scandalous when it was written in a small theater setting.

Don't see it if You don’t enjoy dramas or small theater productions.

88 Reviews | 26 Followers
75
Curiously insubstantial play, considering its fiery subject matter, aided mightily by some fine acting ...

See it if you don't want to miss the memorable characterizations offered by the actors, especially Con Morgan, Brenda Meaney & Jesse Pennington.

Don't see it if you do not want to see a play that would have been better off left undiscovered.

Critic Reviews (17)

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June 21st, 2019

"However bold it was then, by today’s standards, director Aidan Redmond’s revival offers audiences little more than a diorama, a 3-D representation of a bygone era...In this period play, the odds are stacked against a smart, straight-talking, and brave woman who is desperate to make a fresh start in life. While Redmond’s production generates heat and performances are fiery, the play’s dated and protracted naturalistic style makes the controversy it stoked then no longer feel relevant today."
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