Kindness
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 13, 2008
Closed Nov 2, 2008
Opened Oct 13, 2008
Closed Nov 2, 2008
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Running Time:
2hr. 5min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 5min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
An ailing mother and her teenaged son flee Illinois and a crumbling marriage for the relative calm and safety of a midtown Manhattan hotel. Mom holds tickets to a popular musical about love and redemption. Her son, a gifted student currently enrolled at a prestigious military academy, isn't interested. So Mom takes the kindly cabdriver instead, while the boy entertains a visitor from down the hall, an enigmatic young woman seeking solace after a tumultuous, potentially dangerous evening.
Adam Rapp's Kindness is a play about the preciousness of life, the possibility for sympathy in a harsh world, and the meaning of mercy in the face of devastating circumstances.
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The space between love and hate becomes uncomfortably close in writer/director Adam Rapp's taut and involving dark comedy, Kindness, now getting its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons.
Maryanne (Annette O'Toole) has brought her 17-year-old son Dennis (Christopher Denham) from the Midwest to New York City in an effort to spend a little quality time with him while she still can. She's dying of cancer, walks with a cane, and has to take a number of pills to cope with the pain. But Dennis would rather stay in the hotel than go with his mother to the hit new musical, Survivin!, so Maryanne takes cab driver Herman (Ray Anthony Thomas) instead. Meanwhile, the mysterious Frances (Katherine Wat[...]