Prayer for My Enemy
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Opened Dec 9, 2008
Closed Dec 21, 2008
Opened Dec 9, 2008
Closed Dec 21, 2008
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It's a hell of a night for the Noones -- father Austin's watching his nature shows and trying to keep from falling off the wagon, mother Karen's keeping an eye on Austin, son Billy's just back from Iraq, and pregnant daughter Marianne's upset about the state of her marriage to Tad, Billy's childhood friend who may still harbor a crush on him. With the Red Sox battling the Yankees for the 2004 AL title, an American family's long-held secrets are dragged to the fore in what may be its final reckoning.
Prayer for My Enemy, by Craig Lucas, is a paean to our age, a keenly-layered drama about the preciousness of life and the grace to share common ground - even with those we love the least. Bartlett Sher directs.
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Craig Lucas' thoughtful and engaging new play, Prayer for My Enemy -- receiving its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons under the direction of Bartlett Sher -- may not satisfy all audiences. But for those who give themselves over to the style and message of the script, it contains plenty of rewards.
The play gets off to a rough start with an opening scene that awkwardly establishes the theatrical convention of characters speaking aloud their subtextual thoughts, in addition to the actual words that they are supposedly saying. A speech by Jonathan Groff (as the show's protagonist Billy Noone) comes across as an exposition dump, filling the audience in on the back story of his childhoo[...]