Recent Tragic Events
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 28, 2003
Closed Oct 12, 2003
Opened Sep 28, 2003
Closed Oct 12, 2003
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Film star Heather Graham is featured in Playwrights Horizons production of Recent Tragic Events, an acclaimed new play by Craig Wright and directed by Michael John Garcés. Ms. Graham will be making her highly-anticipated New York stage debut playing Waverly Wilson, a spirited ad executive in Minneapolis who goes through with a blind date on Sept. 12, 2001.
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Craig Wright's Recent Tragic Events is being called the first 9/11 comedy. That sure gets people's attention. The play, about a blind date that takes place on September 12, 2001, made the cover of TimeOut NY on that basis, aided and abetted by the presence of movie star Heather Graham in its cast. But what if the production were being touted as a play about fate versus free will? Interesting? Yes. A daring marketing approach? No, unless you're a big fan of the Greek classics. Recent Tragic Events is a play of ideas that's sometimes smart, sometimes funny, and sometimes annoying. No -- make that frequently annoying.
At the beginning of the play, an actress (Kalimi A. Baxter) portraying the s[...]