You Don't Matter (FringeNYC) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (25)
See it if You want to be FOREVER CHANGED by a BRILLIANT script. (Disclaimer: I wrote and directed this play.)
Don't see it if you actually can't see it anyways because it's done.
See it if You like smart talk
Don't see it if Above
See it if you want to see a meta-play that involves interesting themes that require a lot of brain power to unpack. I give it a B grade.
Don't see it if you want a traditional play following a set arc, because this play is essentially two different plays and its direction can be confusing.
See it if You can find the humor in being insignificant.
Don't see it if You're currently fighting with your boyfriend or girlfriend.
See it if you are interested in how the world will end. if you think modern people and their self-absorption suck. if you believe in higher powers.
Don't see it if you don't want to think.
See it if you use theater to ride an emotional roller coaster; you like self-referential pieces, dark humor, & funny but deeply damaged characters.
Don't see it if you just want to go home feeling happy; you're not up for constant reminders of humanity's biggest atrocities and cruelest impulses.
See it if you dig musings on the macro and micro aspects of life and dark humor
Don't see it if you're not into thinking about play after it's finished
See it if You have a gallows sense of humor, you don't mind being faced with your own insignificance and inevitable mortality.
Don't see it if You need a happy ending. Of any kind.
Critic Reviews (3)
"Gives us a lot to think about: Why are humans so awful? Why do we seek self-gratification? Why do we wonder and imagine and try? But also, why do we want and want so much, but never do? 'You Don’t Matter' takes the complicated discussion of humanity, why we’re so horrible to ourselves and each other, and presents it to us to digest in a way that’s easy to understand. But, did we learn anything new? Does it really matter?"
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"The play becomes a fascinating examination of how we hurt our loved ones to a powerfully uncomfortable look at how we hurt everyone around us…Anna’s time spins wildly out of control and then abruptly, the play is over. The audience is left reeling–thinking about not just their own existence, but their existence in relation to others. To the universe. It’s overwhelming, and frightening, but most of all, beautiful."
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"The play took a dark tone to start with…The show had its funny moments, as well. Robert and Anna actually reminded me a lot of my relationships with certain people. Showing that a play could relate to me, they had me laughing. I mean, we are all human at the end of the day right? But of course just like every other unexpected turn in this play it challenged even that question."
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