CRITIC’S PICK: “For all the detailed behavior that shows up at the surface — the various ways the women sip from their water bottles, the shuffling or striding or creeping to their chaises — you always sense the greater weight of whatever lies beneath. That the characters also live in a world of ideas gives the play its intellectual heft and complex texture, both light and profound.”
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“Director James Macdonald assembled an ace ensemble...If ’Infinite Life’ doesn’t quite knit together into a fully satisfying whole, it’s always worthwhile to see what’s currently on the playwright’s mind. And it doesn’t hurt one bit when the acting is exceptional.”
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“ ‘Infinite Life’ is a play about pain and illness — about the messed-up guilt and meaning we ascribe to these uncontrollable things, and the crises of identity and faith that they cause, and the way in which they so often go ignored, dismissed, under-researched, and preyed upon, especially in women.”
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“...’Infinite Life,’ Annie Baker’s tender and compassionate but staunchly unsentimental new play about people living with chronic pain and disease.”
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“Pain may be trapped in the sufferer’s body, but great acting in such primal, honest drama can soothe a collective hurt.”
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“In ’Infinite Life,’ Baker isolates the simple act of existing as (or in) a body and shows us how it’s not so simple.”
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"Healthy or not, we can live only in the moment, never knowing what is coming, and maybe that's a good thing. Among our playwrights, only Baker can illuminate such transient episodes with such feeling and insight. I don't know how she does it."
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“ ‘Infinite Life’ has much to say about the ideas it explores, and it does so with laser-sharp exactitude...Baker has never shied away from writing plays that run over three hours in length, but, despite its dragged-out ending, this one seems to cry out for more.”
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