The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart NYC Reviews and Tickets
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See it if You want a riveting tale, in rhyme, performed for you by brilliant Scottish actors, each playing multiple role and are also the musicians
Don't see it if You prefer traditional theater experiences, but give this a chance!
See it if you like immersive theater experiences. Takes place in a bar room and actors move throughout the audience. Great ambiance, acting, plot!
Don't see it if you want more traditional theater experience or if you aren't a fan of Scottish culture. may be inappropriate for kids (profanity/sexual)
See it if If you want to be immersed in a theatrical experience. This show was so good!
Don't see it if If you don't have a sense of adventure. Read more
See it if You enjoy interactive theater, a compelling story and are a fant of Scotland. An unique experience as you journey with Prudentia. Booze too.
Don't see it if You only like serious drama and are not a fant of interactive theater.
See it if If you want to see a modern fairy tale. Complete with free scotch and finger sandwiches.
Don't see it if If you do not like interactive no traditional theater
See it if Such committed versatile singing actors all around you is fun for you. They even offer you Jameson scotch shots and sandwiches!
Don't see it if You want to avoid an immersive show. Read more
See it if Like good poetry, this show takes you on an emotional ride from rowdy fun to serious themes to hauntingly beautiful scenes. Great movement.
Don't see it if You're not up for just letting go and enjoying the ride. You don't necessarily need to follow it all, just enjoy the journey.
See it if you like unique, immersive shows with superbly talented actors.
Don't see it if you want a traditional, big production show.
Critic Reviews (21)
"The piece brilliantly celebrates the joy of live, traditional music, the enduring power of ancient ballads and the delight in sharing the telling of a story. Wils Wilson’s exuberant production is staged in the bar as a lock-in, with a cracking cast...The piece loses some pace and grip in the Devil’s lair and the drunken karaoke scene goes on too long. But there’s great fun in the way this ingenious exploration of Scottish culture crosses borders with glee."
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"After an extended pub sequence, in what still seems a slightly overlong show, 'Prudencia' finds something both more thrilling and much, much worse, in the Borders B&B from hell. It’s at this point that the show begins to weave itself into a strange erotic game of imprisonment and self-liberation that taxes Wilson’s fine cast of five actor-singer-musicians to the hilt. The company are well up to the challenge, though...They whip the show along to its fantastically rousing conclusion."
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"A great drink will satisfy for many reasons, and so it is with 'The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart:' the go-for-broke enthusiasm of the cast, the infectious music-making, the astoundingly clever and delightful script penned almost completely in rhyming couplets, the playful theatricality that makes audience members into motorbikes and creates blizzards out of shredded bar napkins. And like that great drink, it may just leave you intoxicated."
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"The novel setting and raucous disregard for the fourth wall are hardly the only things that make this memorable show so wildly entertaining...'Prudencia' cleverly weaves together handed-down mythical narratives, rustic, beautiful harmonies and verse, and the jovial liveliness of an evening spent with old friends at the corner watering hole...The five-person cast radiates authenticity...The second act is a bit jarring...a lone distraction in an otherwise captivating production."
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"Greig’s dialogue is clever, unpacking tradition, with an ear for humour and shrewd composition...Yet if there’s anything that makes the night so alive, it’s the wonderful dynamism of the play’s cast of five. They move through the crowd, fueling their interaction, performing folk songs and pop music between all the action...With Alasdair Macrae’s music, and Wils Wilson’s direction, 'Prudencia’s' a joy from its very inception...I emerged from the theatre exultant, enchanted."
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