"Awkwardness is the dominant feeling onstage, as no one has any privacy and nothing better to do than observe each other making faux pas while vainly hoping no one sees their own. The result is a hilarious and relatable adaptation for those of us nervously readjusting back to in-person socializing."
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"THREE STARS! A romance that begins with a proposal has a circuitous road ahead...the action in Tucker’s frenetic production is sometimes hard to follow."
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"One thing is clear: Persuasion marks the long-awaited return of one of New York's most talented companies."
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Persuasion contrasts incisively written and acted moments with broad bits of comic shtick, wild bursts of overemoting, and distracting staging ideas. An approach that, a few seasons ago, was hailed by some as fresh and contemporary is looking increasingly exhausted.
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"Bedlam is presenting Jane Austen’s final novel, Persuasion—directed by company helmer Eric Tucker and adapted by Sarah Rose Kearns—as a production for our times. This may sound like good news. It isn’t. To use a word Austen frequently turns to, it’s vexing."
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"Among the problems are so much doubling and tripling that it becomes difficult to keep the characters separate and a lack of humor and irony that was inherent in the original material. Tucker seems to have forgotten that this should be a comedy of manners."
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I was wholeheartedly engaged with the play – for the last 15 minutes. The first two hours….not so much...it’s still Bedlam, and that means beauty, humor and precision in the design, and much clever and enlivening stage business.
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