Marie and Bruce
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 5, 2011
Closed May 7, 2011
Opened Apr 5, 2011
Closed May 7, 2011
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Running Time:
1hr. 30min.
1hr. 30min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
This revival of Wallace Shawn's Marie and Bruce features Marisa Tomei and Frank Whaley appearing in the title roles, respectively. Shawn's examination of marital strife, premiered in 1979 at The Royal Court Theatre and made its American debut at The New York Shakespeare
Festival in 1980.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
Marisa deserved better!
Although I am a huge Marisa Tomei fan..I was felt the play was very boring and lacked a good story line. I was very disappointed,
Reviewed by Nor3805
on Friday, Apr 8th, 2011
RE:A Boring Play Not Worthy of Marisa Tomei's Talents
The play itself is banal and boring, a one note composition focusing on the relationship between Bruce Frank Whaley, a narcissistic,thick-skinned lout and Marie Marisa Tomei, his dysfunctional, foul mouthed wife. And the play?s unrealized pretensions to existential insights are just plain embarrassing.
Marisa Tomei does as well as might be expected with the role she has been given but the role itself isn?t much. Probably the best performance in the play is that turned in by Frank Whaley as Bruce, who milks his role for all its worth. Similarly, Adam Trese provides a fine performance as Marie?s and Bruce?s friend Frank, their dinner party host. But notwithstanding Tomei?s, Whaley?s and Trese?s performances, the play really wasn?t worth reviving in the first place and you won?t be missing much if you skip it.
I have posted an expanded review of this play and reviews of several other plays on my blog www.aseatontheaisle.blogspot.com.
Reviewed by alansshows
on Wednesday, Apr 6th, 2011
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Wallace Shawn's problematic play Marie and Bruce, now being revived by the New Group on Theatre Row under Scott Elliott's direction, might best be described as a thorny slice-of-life peek into the unhappy marriage of the title characters. Unfortunately, it's also a bleak and unsatisfying evening of theater.
At the beginning, Marie (Marisa Tomei) announces to the audience, "I find my husband so God damned irritating that I'm planning on leaving him." And she doesn't change her mind throughout the intermissionless 100-minute play. She hurls endless insults at him at an alarming speed, which is initially shocking and funny, then uncomfortable, and finally irrelevant and even mind- numbing de[...]