Fifty Words
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 1, 2008
Closed Nov 8, 2008
Opened Oct 1, 2008
Closed Nov 8, 2008
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Something's gone very wrong behind the idyllic façade of Jan and Adam's Brooklyn brownstone. At 9:10 p.m., they're reveling in the freedom of having waved off their young son, Greg, to a neighborhood sleepover. By 9:15 p.m., they're both in tears. By 9:25 p.m., things are way past tears. Alternately funny and frightening, Fifty Words is an expansive look at modern marriage, as seen through the looking glass of one couple's long night's journey into day.
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Lucille Lortel Theatre
121 Christopher St
New York, NY 10014
This theater is named for the Off-Broadway producer and philanthropist, Lucille Lortel. This space is considered one of the best Off-Broadway theaters in New York. It often houses shows that eventually move on to Broadway.
121 Christopher St
New York, NY 10014
This theater is named for the Off-Broadway producer and philanthropist, Lucille Lortel. This space is considered one of the best Off-Broadway theaters in New York. It often houses shows that eventually move on to Broadway.
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Fifty words
Intense and thought provoking.
Reviewed by SCOTIAJANE
on Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2008
Barbara Bleier
Loved the play, the actors, and the direction. An extraordinary theatrical experience.
Reviewed by Barnon
on Sunday, Sep 14th, 2008
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Were Elizabeth Marvel and Leo Norbert Butz not so fearless and Austin Pendleton's direction less ferocious, there would be little to say for MCC Theater's production of Fifty Words, Michael Weller's battle of the sexes rattling the boards at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
Despite the title, Jan (Marvel) and Adam (Butz) take hundreds, maybe thousands of words to snarl through a night of domestic turbulence (made even more terrifying by Rick Sordelet's impressive fight choreography). The result appears as if Weller has looked at Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From a Marriage and said to himself, "They think they've demonstrated how gnarled the tied kn[...]