When We Went Electronic
When We Went Electronic
89% 6 reviews
89%
(6 Ratings)
Positive
83%
Mixed
17%
Negative
0%
Members say
Funny, Great acting, Riveting, Ambitious, Edgy

About the Show

In this new play with songs set in 2008, two American Apparel models search for their missing memory after a tragically fun night.ย 

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Critic Reviews (2)

The New York Times
October 30th, 2018

"A slapdash lampoon of sexual trauma and noxious masculinity...The play wrings its laughs โ€” and, in fairness, its horror โ€” from just how vapid its characters are...What the show has going for it โ€” aside from Ms. Kabashiโ€™s savagely brittle performance and Ms. Cagianeseโ€™s deadpan bops โ€” is its absurdist edginess. For a while, anyway...By the time the actresses are assaulting each other with an emergency light stick repurposed as a dildo, just what or who is being satirized?"
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TheaterScene.net
November 2nd, 2018

โ€œBoth excruciating and vigorously performed...The piffle on display here does exhibit craft, discipline, and structure but to little effect...The dialogue is nonsensical, vulgar, often coarse, and is supposed to be funny...Finnโ€™s energized staging and utilization of the technical elements fulfills the authorโ€™s bleakly cartoonish vision...Worthy takes on themes such as sexual violence, feminism, and consumerism but theyโ€™re diminished by the shrill tone.โ€
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