"...Abbott and Plaza have made us care enough for these two misfits that we are ready to believe that maybe, just maybe, they can get a break."
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“What writer, director, and actors all get right in the end, though, is uncertainty. They may change each other in the course of one night, but it seems just as likely that Roberta and Danny will keep clinging to each other as they will end right back up at that dive bar, picking new fights with new people over beer and pretzels, as though their one night of hope really was just a hazy dream.”
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“What Ward, Abbott, and Plaza access is that ‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea’ isn’t really a play about violence at all, but about absolution. It ends in the morning, with the new possibility to show a little faith, ’cause there was magic in the night.”
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“Despite the raw banter and the actors’ solid performances ‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea’ isn’t exactly riveting. Instead, it feels like a somber, overly long vignette of two deeply tortured people without the means or wherewithal to address the horrors of their circumstances and personal choices.”
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“For its first half, the 80-minute play keeps your attention with its dated but energetic battle of the sexes, but the longer we spend with these folks the less authentic they become. The scope is intimate to the point of claustrophobia; it contracts rather than expands. “
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“Shanley’s script offers some funny exchanges, but his skeletal framework is tricky, and the director doesn’t orchestrate a satisfying rhythm....like Danny and Roberta’s bond, the production is unfinished business.”
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“Ward’s production does give off a faint sense of superficiality, of pulling back from the brink of darkness before fully reaching out for the light. Shanley’s writing is lyrical enough that this solid revival casts a spell anyway, but one may also leave the theater wondering about the more devastating experience that it might have been.”
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" 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea' may be a small play but it has a big heart beating erratically beneath its turbulent surface. "
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