Mad House packs dozens of metaphorical and word-play punches, thanks to Rebeck's cutting script and Moritz von Stuelpnagel directing an authentic family drama. David Harbour delivers a commanding performance.
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This is writing that feels engrossing as it proceeds, but less significant once it has passed. It's a memorable vehicle for David Harbour’s talent, and that is compelling reason in itself to see this show.
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Harbour gives a tender and hilarious performance. The supporting cast is excellent, too. [It] boldly cracks open the suffocating messiness of death, family, and mental health.
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The world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's latest play is set in Pennsylvania where Michael has returned to his family home to look after his dying father, following a spell in hospital to look after his own mental health. Throughout the course of the play, we witness the relationship between the members of this dysfunctional family as questions of inheritance and their own ethics play out.
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‘Mad House’ has an absolutely tremendous cast who were never not going to be able to carry this off. But ultimately you’re left with a play that doesn’t know if it wants to be ‘Hamlet’ or ‘Clybourne Park’, and suffers as a result.
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The dark comedy draws you in, but hits the snag of leaving you a bit high and dry when you yourself are required to care. The evening makes valid points about how hard the family straitjacket can be to escape. But the elaboration of resentments has a pre-fab quality.
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Director Moritz von Stuelpnagel keeps things pacy, and secures fine, flamboyant performances from this A-grade cast. But still, this is all deeply old-fashioned stuff which ... could have easily been written any time in the last five decades.
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Director Moritz Von Stuelpnagel holds the wildly divergent tonal shifts together as best he can, and the cast are never less than watchable but the overall impact is strangely muffled.
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