"Arbery seems to have written 'Corsicana' with his internal censors set to their lowest setting, as if he were hoping to make music the way his characters do: for themselves and, as Ginny puts it, 'with the door closed.' The tune may be strange and leggy and long, and you have no idea whether it’s funny or sad, but it feels like happiness to overhear it."
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"For anyone who appreciates a found family trope and wants to see it delivered naturally, humanely, and beautifully, 'Corsicana' provides enough heart to fill the entire state of Texas. When you hear the song they create, which they vow 'no one's ever gonna hear,' you'll feel like a part of the family, too."
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"After a perfect first hour, some late-play exchanges seem almost unedited, with monologues that wrench at the carefully considered preceding act. I am still grateful, though, that where 'Plano' snuck slyly away from my conscious attention, this play — serious, lopsided, occasionally beautiful — chooses to stick and stay."
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"The play begins to feel attenuated, although the characters are drawn with compassion. Snippets of minor drama—an estrangement between Ginny and Lot when she impulsively says she loves him, and he doesn’t know how to react; Justice’s discovery that she, in fact, loves Lot—occasionally roll across the stage like tumbleweeds. But Mr. Arbery slices life too thinly here."
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"Theatergoers looking for a straightforward plot driven by a thesis will be disappointed by 'Corsicana,' a play that brings you in but refuses to do all the work for you once you're there. ... But with its embrace of the wonderous and unknown, 'Corsicana' makes one thing clear: It's OK to not have all the answers."
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Corsicana conjures four solitary souls posed, like tumbleweeds, against a stark, minimally furnished stage; because Arbery is such a fine writer, each character is an intriguing enigma, but for a dauntingly long time we wait for something meaningful to happen among them. It finally does, but so late and in such scattered fashion that satisfaction is not guaranteed. Whether you think Sam Gold's production, which recalls the mumblecore films of the early twenty-first century, is beautifully understated or merely suffering from iron-poor blood, Corsicana is challenging, and not always in a good way.
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"'Corsicana' is about caretaking, and the caretaking we witness onstage can be touching, as when Ginny counsels Justice on romantic possibilities with a wisdom and exactitude we wouldn't have thought she had in her. But there's also a lot of small talk, God talk, needless repetition, and some truly terrible songs."
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"The problem is that the delivery system in 'Corsicana' isn’t particularly efficient, squandering the overall impact with its discursive dialogue, excessive length and unwillingness to articulate its themes."
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