The Hallway Trilogy
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Feb 24, 2011
Closed Mar 27, 2011
Visit the The Hallway Trilogy website:
http://www.rattlestick.org
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Adam Rapp's Hallway Trilogy is made up of three full-length plays are set fifty years apart.
Part 1, Rose, directed by Rapp, takes place on the evening of November 28th, 1953, the day following the death of Eugene O'Neill and concerns a young actress who has been struggling with severe depression (diagnosed as melancholia in those days) whose arrival in a lower east side tenement affects the lives of several of its residents.
Part 2, Paraffin, directed by Daniel Aukin, is set on the first evening of the 2003 New York City blackout and concerns a married couple - a husband addicted to heroin, his pregnant wife, and his brother's unrequited love for his wife. Though it's now 50 years later, the affects of that young actress's visit are still being felt.
Part 3, Nursing, directed by Trip Cullman, is set in 2053 in a disease-free New York when the tenement has been transformed into a museum where young men and women in need of cash are injected with old-fashioned diseases for the amusement of the public. On this night the air-tight glass wall fractures.
The performance schedule for The Hallway Trilogy is as follows:
Part 1, Rose plays Tuesdays at 8pm
Part 2, Paraffin plays Wednesdays at 8pm
Part 3, Nursing plays Thursdays at 8pm
Parts 1, 2 and 3 will run in rotating repertory on Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 4pm and Saturday at 8pm.
Sunday Marathon Days - All three (3) parts in order - 1pm, 4pm and 8pm.
Each play runs about 90 minutes.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
Starts well but ultimately disappoints
Despite being presented as a "trilogy," this production really is three separate plays cobbled together. The first of the three, Rose, is entertaining and very cleverly crafted, boasting a creative and original plot device. But the other two plays, Paraffin and Nursing, rely excessively on sex, nudity, sophomoric scatalogical humor and violence to hold the audiences interest - and it didnt work for me in either of the two. Ive posted a long comment on the whole "trilogy" on my blog and Ill be posting individual reviews of the three plays that comprise it on my blog over the next few days. You can read my posts on these and dozens of other plays on my blog www.aseatontheaisle.blogspot.com.
Reviewed by alansshows
on Wednesday, Feb 23rd, 2011
RE:Sensational!
Adam Rapp has written a profound piece of uniquely American literature. Performed by a flawless ensemble with brilliant direction and design, this is the best $99 youll spend this year to see all three. Its open seating so get there when the house opens for best seats.
Reviewed by ActBreak
on Saturday, Feb 19th, 2011
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A committed and consistently engaging ensemble cast brings Adam Rapp's The Hallway Trilogy, at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, to vivid and oftentimes discomfiting life. But while Rapp's three-play cycle, set in the same Lower East Side apartment building in 50-year intervals, is undoubtedly ambitious and filled with deliciously off-kilter characters, it also suffers from unwieldy writing and plot holes -- primarily in the trilogy's final installment.
All three plays are a little over 90 minutes apiece, and run in rotating repertory with marathon performances on Sundays. The first, entitled Rose, and directed by the playwright himself, is set in 1953 and depicts the bizarrely intertwined [...]