The Way West NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (28)
See it if You like stories about mothers & daughters and themes about surviving financially. The performances are good and the story is entertaining
Don't see it if You don't like small/intimate shows or shows w/ mostly women. I was fully engaged but didn't care for the monologues that broke the 4th wall
See it if You enjoy off beat, naturalistic humor. Deirdre O'Connell's performance is simply amazing.
Don't see it if You bore easily. It lags a bit, at times, and seemed a couple of scenes too long for a "one act". It dies in the end with no resolve.
See it if You like dierdre o'connell. Good performances from the actors all around. Point of the piece seems unclear - and/or not enough.
Don't see it if You aren't patient
See it if because you should see everything at this theater. They always do great shows, this one was good.
Don't see it if or go to this theater if you want to see edgy stuff. The acting was good, some fat could have been trimmed off the script.
See it if you're a fan of Diedre O'Connell who delivers, you suffered from the great recession and want company, want to support women writers
Don't see it if one-joke plays or predictable formats don't appeal to you, you expect character growth, you were expecting a comedy, you hate obstinacy
See it if you love being bored by banal characters with nothing to say
Don't see it if you want to wash the cat
See it if you like Deirdre O'Connell.
Don't see it if you want something original.
See it if You like strange scenarios and are open minded to whatever may be. Very slow moving subject and story.
Don't see it if You like simple story lines
Critic Reviews (11)
"Ms. Mansour’s intent is genuine, but the play wobbles between realism and absurdism never giving either genre the opportunity to realize her noble dramatic goals...Under Mimi O’Donnell’s reasoned but sometimes inconsistent direction, the ensemble gives each of their characters an often intense and hyperactive authenticity that fills the stage with an aching for redemption and release from the captivity of meaninglessness...'The Way West' seems to be a work in progress."
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"If all that befalls the family sounds too dark for 'The Way West' to be counted as a comedy, it has the rhythms and sparkle of lighter fare, thanks to the playwright’s witty dialogue and gentle doses of absurdity; the smooth direction of Labyrinth’s artistic director Mimi O’Donnell; and the terrific six-member cast – above all, the always fabulous Dierdre O’Connell as the descendant of pioneers, who elevates deliberate denial into a basic tenet of the American West."
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"Ms. Mansour may be saying that the American pioneer spirit of survival in the face of every obstacle, on which Mom keeps harping, will somehow prevail, but what she’s shown about this family suggests not that they’ll succeed but that even worse awaits in the future. ‘The Way West’ isn’t funny enough to gloss over how depressing it is."
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