Our House
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 9, 2009
Closed Jun 21, 2009
Opened Jun 9, 2009
Closed Jun 21, 2009
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
What happens when news and entertainment are interchangeable? In a cautionary tale ripped from today's headlines, a power-hungry TV mogul faced with dwindling ratings installs America's favorite news anchor as host of a popular reality show. Meanwhile, in Middle America, a houseful of roommates bicker over high-stakes real-world conflicts: Merv doesn't clean the bathroom, someone ate Alice's yogurt, and the rent is long past due. When reality suddenly collides with reality TV, we find ourselves front and center in the thorniest hostage drama since Waco.
Theresa Rebeck's Our House is a deliciously scathing new comedy that takes on a media-obsessed culture intent on turning even the most sobering crisis into sexy entertainment.
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The inanities of reality TV present such a broad target that Theresa Rebeck doesn't really need to haul out the howitzer for her new play Our House, now receiving its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons under Michael Mayer's direction. And in fact she doesn't. Yet, in critiquing a medium prone to superficiality, her script ultimately falls prey to the same pitfall.
Two parallel worlds are represented by 2009 Tony Award winner Derek McLane's clever, compact set. Foremost is a forbiddingly minimalist office where network honcho Wes (Christopher Evan Welch, here a master of smarmy conceit) rails about the onus of having to produce unprofitable news programming. He interrupts his rant j[...]