"Not that the 75-minute play, first performed in 1991, is coldblooded or didactic...it is painful both in the story it tells and in the immense effort expended to tell it properly."
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"The chills that periodically shoot through this play are part of the same cold front as the steady, muffling whiteness that falls gently in its background."
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"This is a murder mystery of sorts, after all, so put on your detective's hat and keep your eyes and ears peeled for the clues."
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"It feels as if Kennedy herself has seen all this from a distance, and already predicted the weather patterns. She leaves us here, uncertain, in the snow."
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“ 'Ohio State Murders' leaves a lasting imprint—I picture a bloody handprint—on what for lack of a better term I’ll call the soul."
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"Like nervous parents giving their kids a bit more attention than they might need, Ohio State Murders in a production that’s sometimes just much for its own good, portentous when it needn’t be, with a here-and-there vibe of being overcooked when pared-down simplicity might be called for."
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"Kenny Leon’s production focuses a bit too much on memory and not enough on the imagined present, to my mind."
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“ 'Ohio State Murders' is not a mystery, nor is it structured around conventions of suspense — the crimes are right there in the title, and disclosures about its victims and perpetrator occur almost incidentally."
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