Will You Come With Me NYC Reviews and Tickets
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See it if overall great design work including beautiful multi-media work. gorgeous directing work.
Don't see it if it was hard to follow at times, hard to keep track of how much time passed between moments and how much I was supposed to know.
See it if you are curious about the tech inspired storytelling, the specialty of Theater Mitu. Two women fall in love with with different ideals.
Don't see it if you are looking for emotional engagement. The international romance is difficult to follow twisted as it is with political outrage.
Critic Reviews (4)
"If 'Will You Come With Me?' wants to posit love as an act of resistance, it’s not exactly clear what gets in the way of it here. The social uprising makes for a chaotic backdrop, but its forces don’t seem to be what drives the pair apart. The play feels like a kind of battle-logue, of two people trying to escape themselves for each other and bend the arc of history. It’s a valiant effort at a worthy endeavor, even if the execution is a blur."
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The scenic ground plan is sufficiently large that one cannot play to one part of the audience without shutting out the rest. As it happens, both performers roam the space, declining to make eye contact while recalling moments from the past or, occasionally, taking part in inconclusive exchanges about their relationship problems. They might as well be talking to themselves; often, they are lost as they are in the rangy ground plan, overshadowed by video imagery and sonic effects. It's not just that one struggles to care about their characters; half the time, one can't even make them out.
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"The braiding of past and present works remarkably effectively at the end–scenes in the present and the past taking place in the same location, one with Janina and Umut having just found each other and the other with them unable to connect. 'Will you come with me?' becomes the question neither Umut, nor the play, can answer."
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"I would have loved to have learned about this with more clarity in the play itself. It’s not that I insist on documentary theater. Belarus Free Theater is as experimental and cutting edge as they come, but is able to drive home the chilling atmosphere of life in a totalitarian state."
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