"By the end of the tautly sustained 70 minutes of “Is This a Room” — the extraordinary documentary theater work by Tina Satter ... — you’ll probably feel the need for a drink, or a yoga session, or a full-throated scream. [A] sharp, blindingly polished slice of theater vérité."
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"How does mind-numbing banality become heart-racing excitement?...a 65-minute verbatim transcript has now become the basis for one of the thrillingest thrillers ever to hit Broadway. “Is This a Room,” which opened on Monday at the Lyceum Theater, turns the ums and stutters and bizarre non sequiturs of recorded speech into astonishing — and astonishingly emotional — theater."
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"Is This A Room is a formally unconventional play with downtown energy...In this larger forum, the play acquires a certain added weight: It demands to be taken seriously, and the questions it raises about power, surveillance and sacrifice are worthy of the platform."
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"If you were only going to go to one play the rest of the year make it this one. The issues raised are too important not to be a part of the conversation."
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"Satter’s production treats her actors as sculptures and the stage as their gallery... I have adored it everywhere I’ve seen it, but the huge box of the Lyceum does change the dynamics of Satter’s extraordinary staging, making it seem both more gorgeous and more severe."
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"Throughout the course of its taut 70 minutes, the remarkable Is This A Room, opening tonight at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre, prompts a steady, gut-churning stream of “what ifs"...performed by a flawless cast headed by Emily Davis."
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"As the title hints, “Is This a Room” is as much about atmosphere as the words it enacts...If any element of the production is worth the uptown price tag, it’s Davis in a kinetic and magnetizing debut."
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"Four stars!...For many of the audience members the verbatim reproduction may pass merely as an up-close look at FBI tactics, a kind of unmoored Dragnet episode."
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