Knickerbocker
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Opened May 6, 2011
Closed May 29, 2011
Opened May 6, 2011
Closed May 29, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
"Are you ready?" Jerry confronts this question from the womb of his favorite restaurant booth while the months pass by and the son he and his wife Pauline are expecting grows from the size of a peach to the size of...a baby. As the due date approaches, can friends and family members help Jerry feel prepared, or just feel worse, like some un-anonymous sperm donor terrified of making the transition from being the son of a father to being the father of a son? Staged just blocks from the titular restaurant where it is set, the latest play by Jonathan Marc Sherman is sharp, funny, and deeply felt.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
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RE:Knickerbocker
I think this is going to be a generational thing. I cannot remember myself, many, many years ago, , analyzing impending fatherhood in quite this detail with quite this cast of characters who feature in this play. There are some good lines and some interesting dialogue but I found the generation gap a bit wide for me to empathize too much with the pre-natal parents or their friends and family. The acting was good and the staging spare but adequate. Perhaps it should be a required view for those in the same boat as the central character.
Reviewed by MACNBOB
on Sunday, May 15th, 2011
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In Jonathan Marc Sherman's intermittently affecting
Knickerbocker, now at the Public Theater under Pippin Parker's unobtrusive direction, the playwright is apparently following the old "write about what you know" dictum in penning this work about a 40-year-old man facing fatherhood for the first time.
Such an approach can sometimes mean authors are tapping into universal truths. As it happens this time, though, Sherman sticks too much to the thoroughly self-involved. The result is a comic drama that will be most appreciated by expectant dads and their spouses--as well as couples recollecting their recent child-bearing past.
In a series of short scenes spanning a period of six months [...]