Hard Times
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 5, 2010
Closed Mar 28, 2010
Opened Feb 5, 2010
Closed Mar 28, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
From childhood, Louisa and Tom Gradgrind were trained to shun emotion, imagination, passion--to put their trust in Cold Hard Facts. Now faced with a loveless marriage and a life devoid of dreams, Louisa has begun to wonder; has something inside her been maimed? In Stephen Jeffreys' whirlwind adaptation of Dickens' saga--crowded with eccentric circus performers, shrewd businessmen, cunning widows, and downtrodden workers--we find that even in the darkest industrial landscape, honesty, loyalty, joy, and
love abound…and the human heart will not be silenced forever.
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Neither the best of times nor the worst of times, the Pearl Theater Company's current production of
Hard Times, now at New York City Center-Stage II, is what its title suggests. This three-plus hour recapitulation of Charles Dickens' novel of the same name is often heavy going.
An opening theatrical flourish gives theatergoers reason to hope that the show might engage imaginations and hearts when the six-member ensemble recites short phrases from Dickens' narrative, colorfully bringing the grimy fictional mill city of Coketown to life. But after this beginning, Stephen Jeffreys' adaptation and director J.R. Sullivan's consistently lucid production settle into a story theater-like mode of [...]