"A Play About Re-enactors Gets Real: Talene Monahon’s show at 59E59 Theaters feels provocative but unfinished, a pieced quilt of overlapping textures and ideas."
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3/5 Stars "While much of what the reenactors have to say about the United States, both then and now, is thought-provoking, 'How to Load a Musket' still feels like a work in progress. Monahon's noble effort to give everyone a voice, including herself...results in a kind of cacophony."
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"Monahon draws her interview subjects out beyond the obsessive pointillism of period costumes and replica munitions, and, with the director Jaki Bradley, presents a complex portrait of a darkly peculiar American pastime."
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"How to Load a Musket Takes Aim at Historical Reenactment: Talene Monahon's new documentary play explores why some Americans dress up in Civil and Revolutionary War uniforms."
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"An auspicious premiere of a sometimes comic, sometimes serious, and always compelling docudrama about the world of Revolutionary War and Civil War reenactors."
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4/5 Stars. "Talene Monahon's smart new docudrama studies people who re-enact battles from American history"
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"This compact play provides a smart, funny look into the minds of American war re-enactors."
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"An essay more than a play, with players as opposed to characters, How to Load a Musket is a racist diatribe that fails to make its points coherently. The costumes and appointments on the walls of a black box space say all that there is to say in a play that ultimately leaves one wanting for more."
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