Burning
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 14, 2011
Closed Dec 17, 2011
Opened Nov 14, 2011
Closed Dec 17, 2011
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Running Time:
2hr. 30min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 30min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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http://www.thenewgroup.org
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
In emotionally charged intersecting stories spanning two eras, a contemporary black painter, who depicts shocking racial violence in his art but hides his race from the press, goes to Berlin for a gallery show only to find that his work has been misinterpreted. And in the mid-'80s an ambitious teenage boy, recently orphaned, comes to New York to become an actor and is taken in by a gay couple in the industry as they are preparing the debut of a new Broadway play. In searing and graphic tales of self-invention and sexual identity, Burning attacks the pretenses of the worlds of art and theatre.
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It's unclear if Thomas Bradshaw intends his world premiere play Burning, now being presented by The New Group at Theatre Row, to be viewed as satire or melodrama. However, it succeeds as neither.
The tedious work, directed by Scott Elliott, has occasional glimmers of interesting ideas and character interactions, but then sabotages itself by presenting reductive scenes that seem designed to shock and/or titillate audiences with graphic depictions of a wide range of sexual scenarios.
The convoluted plot jumps back and forth between two different time periods, and follows several intersecting storylines. The focus is first placed upon 14-year-old Chris (Evan Johnson), who moves to New York [...]