Parents' Evening
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 29, 2010
Closed May 29, 2010
Opened Apr 29, 2010
Closed May 29, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
A married couple prepare with dread for the annual PARENTS' EVENING at their daughter's school. Bathsheba Doran's play examines the land mines of modern marriage and parenting. Julianne Nicholson and James Waterston star in this two-hander, directed by Jim Simpson.
Ms. Doran plays include, among others, Fifteen Minutes, Odes and Gameshows, The War Play and Feminine Wash. She has been produced at the Edinburgh Festival, The Atlantic Theatre in New York City, The Old Vic Theatre and the Drury Lane in London and the play was a part of the Mentors Project series at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2003.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
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RE:Parents Evening
This is definitely a show for our times. I would think that very many people who see this will recognize aspects of their own lives. The acting duo very cleverly and accurately reflect the life/work imbalance and the frictions and fractiousness which arise from seemingly trivial events.
The script is concise and tight and the more emotional husband and his long-suffering and hard working wife form an explosive mixture as they deal with their own and their unseen daughters tribulations.
This is worth seeing for good tight well-acted and directed theater.
Reviewed by MACNBOB
on Monday, May 3rd, 2010
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The bad behavior of an unseen child exposes the long-festering resentments and the distance that has grown between a husband and wife in Bathsheba Doran's absorbing new dramedy Parents' Evening, playing at the The Flea.
As the play opens, workaholic attorney Judy (Julianne Nicholson) and stay-at-home dad and author Michael (James Waterston) are mid-argument about the snippy victory song their 10-year-old daughter Jessica has improvised after winning a game of Clue. Michael's furious about it and his anger's only been compounded by the fact that Judy spent an hour with the girl in her room after the familial altercation. He feels left out and worries that his wife is coddling the child. [...]