See it if You enjoy a well written and well acted play
Don't see it if you are looking for fluff
See it if you want to tap into your emotions & the importance of trust, privacy, social interactions, personal fears, and surviving life challenges
Don't see it if you are in the mood for a musical or a show that is more entertaining than emotionally charged
See it if You like Plays set in the workplace of a lower class population using heavy street dialogue and accents. You like realistic plays.
Don't see it if You can't deal with heavy, unsubtle street talk. You dislike even a few moments of rap music used to set the tone and time of the plot.
See it if an important American play. Sensitively performed and directed. Resonant moral and economic issues. Precise, layered dialogue and set design
Don't see it if It may take a little extra effort to fully understand the vernacular, but that's a rewarding experience.
See it if you like dynamic theater that delivers a message relevant to today's political climate.
Don't see it if you don't care about people's struggles and personal lives.
See it if u want a well-directed & vibrant telling of the effect of economic collapse on the working class. Felt fresh due to charismatic performances
Don't see it if you have zero interest in factory decline, blue-collar milieu, Detroit struggles, morally gray defiance, rap music, or interpretive dance.
See it if you are interested in extremely fine acting in a very original and relevant play that speaks to the American working class experience
Don't see it if you don't like deep plays or don't want to think too deeply about what you are seeing, or only want to see happy content plays.
See it if Moving depiction of 4 Detroit auto workers facing the imminent closing of their plant; seen from both white collar & blue collar perspective
Don't see it if Acting was terrific. Story unfolds slowly; not much action. One actress spoke in a strong dialect that was sometimes hard to follow.
"The 'whodunit' dramatic tension keeps the play exciting—Morisseau keeps giving us reasons to love the people we most suspect...Although we first see these characters as snapshots, they grow into complex people we deeply invest in, and concordantly Morisseau invests us in the plight of the American autoworker."
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