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"The playwright, has also overwhelmed the show, with a surfeit of ideas jostling for limited oxygen. This is a quasi-romance and coming-of-age story set inside a refugee crisis in a world awash in bigotry."
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"There’s no escaping the clunky dialogue, but it’s relieved by a chorus of three actors, who voice the thoughts of Kevin—who’s struggling to turn his recollections into a book—and variously incarnate Rembrandt, van Gogh, Anne Frank, and ludicrous tourists."
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"The tension between Kevin and Sammy is in their overarching worldview: Kevin, a child of a Filipino immigrant, is convinced in that oh-so-American way that an experience is only worth something if it can be turned into art for public consumption ... Sammy, meanwhile, lives life day by day out of necessity, and rejects this compulsion to leave behind relics of his existence for strangers to enjoy."
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Time is the antagonist in Clarence Coo's play…Coo, a new face to New York theatregoers -- a 2019 production of this play was postponed by Primary Stages -- has a novelist's sensibility combined with a taste for theatrical flourishes. The situation in On That Day in Amsterdam, at first glance a natural for the page, is massaged by the playwright and his director, Zi Alikhan, into a touching and entirely stage-worthy meditation on the strange ways our lives are shaped by the facts of history, the distortions of memory, and the consolations of art.
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"In a world where the line between content and art gets hazier every day, it's a thought-provoking debate to peer in on. "
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"For all of the play’s sometimes self-conscious social and historical nuances, in fact, it’s the common humanity evinced in these performances—and in other aspects of Coo’s lyrical, compassionate writing—that make 'Amsterdam' most compelling."
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" 'On That Day in Amsterdam' is a fantasia of poetry, poignancy and compassion, the work of a writer who is able to create overlapping worlds with remarkable skill. His is a voice that’s a pleasure to discover."
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