Going to St. Ives
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 29, 2005
Closed Apr 24, 2005

Playing at
Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters

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Running Time:
2hr. 0min.

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

"Original and compelling." "Engrossing." "Startling." "Soul-searching." "Gripping." "Timely."

These are just some of the words the Los Angeles Times used to describe Lee Blessing's play, Going to St. Ives. Mr. Blessing makes his Primary Stages debut with this tension-packed play that pits individual responsibility against the power of the state. The mother of a monstrous dictator in sub-Saharan Africa questions the very nature of her motherhood while on a medical visit to the UK. Starring Tony Award®-winner L. Scott Caldwell (Joe Turner's Come and Gone) & Vivienne Benesch, Blessing's 2-character play haunts us at our deepest levels. Maria Mileaf directs.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters
59 E 59th St
New York, NY 10022

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

In Lee Blessing's Going to St. Ives someone comes to a beautifully appointed Cornwall, England home and a charged discussion ensues concerning the extinction of a family member. If it were 1952 and Neil Patel had designed as suave a drawing room as this one, the play would be Frederick Knott's Dial M for Murder. But it isn't 1952; it's 2005, and times are no longer hospitable to expertly crafted but hermetic theatrical thrillers in which the difference between good and bad is as clear cut as Waterford crystal. Moral ambiguity is the order of the day.

When it comes to demonstrating how screwy the moral compass has become as the 21st century gets shakily underway, dramatist Blessing -- last [...]

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Reviewed by David Finkle on Mar 30, 2005