Still, “The Wanderers” feels, like its vague title, unmoored. That has not been a problem with Ziegler’s previous plays, which include “Photograph 51” (about the molecular biologist Rosalind Franklin) and “Actually” (about a campus sexual assault trial). ... “The Wanderers” doesn’t enhance those elements but compromises them. Arranged or chosen, not all marriages are bashert.
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“ ‘The Wanderers’ feels purposely manufactured for the audience who will come see it...The play does not feel like a vehicle of cultural representation, but one the creative team can market to a reliable theatregoing audience without much effort.”
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“In a story so much about reading and writing, with a set covered in books, you get the feeling this may have all read a little clearer on the page.”
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“ ‘The Wanderers’ moves, without for a moment wandering, through difficult swamps of experience...Which gloomy observation one might instinctively endorse, but not after seeing a play of this superior quality.”
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“There is a slight sense of flatness that this revolving door of paired scenes creates within a play whose ideas are bursting with three-dimensionality. Though perhaps that is simply the requisite tradeoff for a big story told in an intimate way. “
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“That this is a slick, literate, professional production is not in doubt and Ziegler has some interesting points to make about the consolations of art and its limitations; Abe, for example, turns his personal agony into great prose, but effort hardly makes him happier. Still, too much of the time, the people in The Wanderers are too subject to their creator's whims to be entirely believable.”
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“ ‘The Wanderers’ has some trenchant observations about the price of independence in a restrictive environment, the gnarly twists and turns in a modern marriage, and the consequences of a vivid fantasy life concocted by an active imagination”
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“Ziegler has written a beautifully shaded portrait of two generations of Brooklyn marriages, and truthfully, you should be drawn in.”
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