Rainbow Kiss
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Opened Mar 22, 2008
Closed Apr 13, 2008
Opened Mar 22, 2008
Closed Apr 13, 2008
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The Play Company presents the U.S. premiere of Simon Farquhar's Rainbow Kiss. Will Frears directs.
The play concerns a single father who stakes his future on a one-night stand with an upwardly mobile beautician he meets at a club.
This is Farquhar debut stage play, which premiered to critical acclaim at the Royal Court Theatre in April 2006.
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When it comes to studies in romantic obsession, Simon Farquhar's
Rainbow Kiss, now at 59E59, is right up there with Fatal Attraction and Passion. When it comes to studies in severe despair, however, there may be nothing comparable since Roman Polanski's 1965 thriller Repulsion.
As Rainbow Kiss unfolds on Thomas Lynch's gloom-ridden set with its prominent Double Indemnity poster -- a visual clue to Farquhar's disillusioning purpose -- it piles on the psychic pain until the audience is ready to cry 'Uncle!". Eventually, some of the play feels superfluous in the way of a dramatist making sure his point comes across to a possibly slow-witted audience. Yet, by the final fade-out, no a[...]