A Behanding in Spokane
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 4, 2010
Closed Jun 6, 2010
Opened Mar 4, 2010
Closed Jun 6, 2010
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Running Time:
1hr. 30min.
1hr. 30min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Christopher Walken is nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play.
The title is just the starting point; take a man searching for his missing hand, two con artists out to make a few hundred bucks, and an overly curious hotel clerk, and the rest is up for grabs. A Behanding in Spokane is Martin McDonagh's hilariously black comedy, a world premiere which marks McDonagh's first American-set play.
A Behanding in Spokane stars Academy Award-winner Christopher Walken and stage and screen stars Sam Rockwell, Anthony Mackie and Zoe Kazan. Directed by John Crowley.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
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A Behanding in Spokane
Probably if you are high on something, you will have a fabulous time and never stop laughing. However, we were going to see another Martin McDonaugh play and to see Christopher Walken on stage. The last thing we saw of McDonaugh was his brilliant film, In Bruges, with Colin Farrell. So-o back to "Behanding".....without Christopher Walken this play would fall flat and even with Walken, unless you are sitting way up front and can actually see the little facial grins, smirks and Walken mannerism.......this play becomes very boring.......we would not recommend seeing this, unless you can get seats close to the stage.
Reviewed by joycehays
on Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Worst Play of the Century?
This was an embarrasement for all parties concerned. Not only did the F-word wear one down, but so di the N-one. One can only wonder where the playwright had gone had the Mackie character been white. Had no idea what the point was here -- perhaps a misguided comment on an Irishman trying to get inside an Americans head much less a black one.
Reviewed by qwerty48
on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
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Christopher Walken has built a career of playing characters who look as if they're capable of doing almost anything with no remorse whatsoever. And audiences love him for it. They're also going to love him -- vociferously -- in Martin McDonagh's new play, A Behanding in Spokane, now at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
They may not love the play, however. Under John Crowley's direction, the work is little more than a not very resonant, occasionally macabre sketch that lapses and regains momentum.
In the play -- the first McDonagh has set in America -- Walken plays a man identified as Carmichael, who, at 17, had his left hand severed by a gang of "hillbillies" and who, 47 years later[...]