Frozen

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[Editor's Note: TheaterMania's David Finkle reviewed the MCC Theater production of Frozen when it opened Off-Broadway in March. Now that the show has transferred to Broadway's Circle in the Square, here is a re-edited version of that review.]

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The well-made play isn't in particularly good repute nowadays and hasn't been for some decades. One colleague of mine has even come dangerously close to suggesting that dramas with an invisible fourth wall ought to be consigned to television, that well-known middle- and low-brow retreat. Coincident with the increased shaming of the Ibsen-Chekhov tradition as embarrassingly outmoded has been a concomitant increased experimentatio[...]

The well-made play isn't in particularly good repute nowadays and hasn't been for some decades. One colleague of mine has even come dangerously close to suggesting that dramas with an invisible fourth wall ought to be consigned to television, that well-known middle- and low-brow retreat. Coincident with the increased shaming of the Ibsen-Chekhov tradition as embarrassingly outmoded has been a concomitant increased experimentation with form.

Which has led, also increasingly, to curious items like Bryony Lavery's Frozen. The piece concerns a serial child-killer called Ralph In Wantage (Brían F. O'Byrne); the mother of one of his victims, who's called Nancy (Swoosie Kurtz); and Americ[...]