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Last Easter
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 7, 2004
Closed Oct 23, 2004

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http://www.MCCTheater.org

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

MCC Theater presents Last Easter by Bryony Lavery, directed by Doug Hughes.

June is dying. Her best friends, Heather, Joy, and Gash, embark on a whirlwind journey to find a cure, whisking her from her home in London all the way from Texas to Lourdes, where she is thoroughly dunked in the holy water. Along the way they laugh and sing and drink a lot of wine. They're all theatre folk, so their lunatic pilgrimage is filled with magical lighting and musical effects including drag acts and a ghostly stagehand who appears magically like a dream. This very funny and ultimately touching play tells us what a close family friends can be.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Lucille Lortel Theatre
121 Christopher St
New York, NY 10014


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Part of Veanne Cox's enormous appeal is her marvelous cartoon face. It suddenly hit me whom Cox resembled when I was watching Bryony Lavery's lovely Last Easter, in which Cox plays June, a woman with terminal cancer. She looks like Little Lulu -- or, rather, like Little Lulu might have looked had creators Marge Henderson Buell and John Stanley allowed her to grow up. Cox has the dots for eyes, the isosceles triangle nose, the lines-for-lips mouth. And though it might seem insulting to compare a respected actress to Little Lulu, it isn't. From the get-go Lulu was a bright, no-nonsense, innocently lovable kid whom you really cottoned to; and she was extra-special in that she made her first [...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Oct 8, 2004

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