"It’s a lot for an 80-minute play about teenagers, and though 'Camp Siegfried' is fascinating anyway, perhaps a longer treatment would have allowed the characters to unwind more naturally."
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" 'Camp Siegfried' feels a little underweight to take on its provocative subject... The play is a too-brief dip into this much deeper sea."
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"Bess Wohl's play includes romance, but sentimental and forgiving it is not...Wohl is trying to craft a metaphor: Falling for fascism is its own kind of toxic relationship."
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"In the end, 'Camp Siegfried' is most undermined by its caution: It holds the characters at arms-length and allows us to examine their fling from a safe distance. "
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n this deft, compact, two-hander Wohl excavates a fascinating, if dismaying, slice of recent New York history, while obliquely commenting on those who prefer to live in today's political echo chambers. David Cromer's laser eye for the tiniest emotional shifts makes him the right director for this property and his actors, both making their New York theatre debuts, are ideal.
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" 'Camp Siegfried' does not have the audacity and sheer theatricality of the other work, but it still offers a potent and timely reminder that hatred and neo-fascism can flourish in our own backyard."
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"That ugliness can fester in beautiful settings may not be an original observation, but it is a timely one, and Wohl’s play, if not her most affecting, provides a sobering reminder."
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"Camp Siegfried" is a new departure for the author of "Small Mouth Sounds," "Continuity," "Make Believe' and "Grand Horizons." Depicting an important piece of history in an age when hate speech is on the rise, the play seems to be attempting something it doesn’t quite achieve. However, it is certainly a worthy effort and an engrossing piece in the theater though it leaves us hungry for more.
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