The Shoemaker
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 24, 2011
Closed Aug 14, 2011
Opened Jul 24, 2011
Closed Aug 14, 2011
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Oscar nominee Danny Aiello will star in the world premiere of Susan Charlotte's The Shoemaker, to be presented Off-Broadway by Cause Celebrè at Theater Row's Acorn Theater, July 14-August 14, with an opening on July 24. Antony Marsellis will direct.
Set in New York's Hell's Kitchen, the drama focuses on a shoemaker, an Italian Jew, on a devastating day that has become a turning point in American history. As each hour passes he confronts yet another part of his past, present and an uncertain future.
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RE:Flat Footed
Probably one of the most incoherent, badly written and worse directed plays of the decade. Is Susan Charlotte really drawing parallels between The Holocaust and 9/11? What is the rationale for anyones behavior here? Danny Aiello careens between incoherent mumbling and incoherent bellowing. This rudderless play is simply appalling. Keep walking.
Reviewed by ActBreak
on Friday, Jul 22nd, 2011
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There have been Holocaust plays and there have been 9/11 plays, but Susan Charlotte's The Shoemaker, now at The Acorn Theater at Theatre Row, may boast the distinction of being the first-ever drama that combines both devastating events into one ambitious whole. Sad to say, the drama has little other distinction -- unless you count Danny Aiello's return to the commercial stage in a title role that may not be as well suited to him as he hopes.
In the work -- which was previously seen as a one-act -- the always earnest and effectively humane Aiello plays Guiseppe, the long-time proprietor of a recognizably shabby Manhattan shoe-repair establishment (evoked by Ray Klausen's predominantly ins[...]