"Watchable ... but more curio than classic."
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"This 'Watch on the Rhine' is well worth watching: not in a long time has a show come so honestly by the standing ovation at its close."
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"It is not so much interested in which way the moral compass points, but with who will go where it demands. A Chekhovian family drama charged with Brechtian politics."
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"The dialogue is too smart, the wild gear-changes too intriguing, the intention – at Hellman’s time of writing – too audacious."
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" ‘Watch on the Rhine’ was written for a specific time. It must have been incendiary in its day. It’s not now. But its shift from bourgeoise cosiness to shocking violence remains bravura stuff."
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"For all its oddity, and over-writing, the play grips...It may not come back for another 40 years, but it feels like an important piece in the history of theatre."
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"This is a handsomely mounted, well-acted work that strums reliably on the emotions, but feels inescapably like a museum piece."
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"McDougall frames the play with flickering cinematic visual effects...For all that, it’s still, in essence, a dowdy drawing room exercise, mounted on Basia Binkowska’s decorous set."
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