I Never Sang for My Father
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 4, 2010
Closed May 1, 2010

Playing at
Theatre Row Complex

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

I Never Sang for My Father explores one son's struggle to balance his own happiness with the needs of his aging parents, and his yearning for a closer relationship with the father he cannot change. Gene Garrsion is a grown man with a successful career, but when his parents arrive for a visit, he finds himself in that awkward position of feeling like a child again. When tragedy strikes, Gene is forced to examine his responsibility to himself and his family in new ways. A complex portrait of a family in flux, this moving work by Robert Anderson explores what it means to be a man and a son at the same time.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Theatre Row Complex
410 W 42nd St
New York, NY 10036

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The Keen Company's current revival of Robert Anderson's 1968 drama
I Never Sang for My Father, now at Theatre Row, is a surprisingly lackluster affair. Fortunately, Marsha Mason and Matt Servitto provide enough of a pulse to make Jonathan Silverstein's uneven production watchable.

Mason, a four-time Oscar nominee, manages to bring a variety of emotional pitches to her role as the long-suffering wife, Margaret Garrison. Not only does she seem to truly inhabit her character, but Mason provides welcome moments of unpredictability to what, even 40 years ago, was probably a fairly predictable if heartfelt script. (It should be noted that Mason looks a bit too robust and energetic for the frail,[...]

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Reviewed by Andy Buck on Apr 5, 2010