The Butterfly Collection
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 3, 2000
Closed Oct 15, 2000
Opened Oct 3, 2000
Closed Oct 15, 2000
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When a spirited young writer's assistant invades a New England family, long-seeded tensions are dragged into the open. Over the course of three tumultuous weeks, fathers, sons, lovers, and spouses are pitted against one another in a ferocious battle of wits and wills that may claim them--or restore a tenuous happiness. Theresa Rebeck's The Butterfly Collection receives its world premiere from Playwrights Horizons. The cast includes Marian Seldes, Brian Murray, and Reed Birney. Bartlett Sher directs.
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Although she has a number of plays and productions to her credit, Theresa Rebeck gives quite the opposite impression with The Butterfly Collection, the family fracas that has just opened at Playwrights Horizons. This piece seems to be the handiwork of an extremely bright student who wants to write for the theater but doesn't really know how to do so; just study the best examples of stage literature in order to figure out the formula and then follow it, she seems to have concluded.
Rebeck doesn't seem to have realized that mastering technique must be combined with developing an original voice. It's as if in preparing The Butterfly Collection, she boned up on Shakespeare
(King Lear), [...]