“ ‘Heaven’ unfolds as alternating monologues, a telling suggestion of the couple’s isolation from each other...it concludes on a note of ambiguity, as the question of the marriage of Mairead and Mal seems potentially unresolved.”
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"It helps that Moran and Bennett are particularly gifted actors, making 'Heaven' feel like an old story well-told."
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"Plays where the characters never actually interact are extremely difficult to pull off effectively without becoming mere narrative storytelling...'Heaven,' running 90 minutes without an intermission, succeeds beautifully in bringing its story fully to life."
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"O’Brien’s writing avoids most predictable tropes and will leave Mairead, Mal and the audience with plenty of feelings to sort through. It is, to be sure, a wedding night to remember."
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rich texture…eccentric structure…vivid characters… We never see Mal or Mairead interact with one another. This arguably fits thematically; we learn that lately they have had little to do with one another (nothing sexually for five years.) But it, along with the thick Irish accents, requires a high level of attentiveness
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In 85 minutes, Irish playwright Eugene O’Brien masterfully dramatizes two slices of life in his engaging bittersweet marital confessional. It is structured as a series of finely etched alternating biographical monologues addressed to the audience; startling revelations abound.
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