Three Changes
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 16, 2008
Closed Oct 3, 2008

Playing at
Playwrights Horizons

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Wilson Milam directs the world premiere of Nicky Silver's Three Changes, featuring Aya Cash, Scott Cohen, Dylan McDermott, Brian J. Smith, and Maura Tierney. Beginning September 30, Obie Award winner Tim Hopper replaces McDermott.

Nate and Laurel are a comfortably married, Upper West Side couple -- until Nate's wayward brother Hal arrives from Hollywood. What at first seems a casual visit, a chance to reconnect, is quickly revealed as something more ominous. Hal may have had success, but human connection is all that matters, and he intends to make connections -- no matter who pays the price. Nicky Silver's Three Changes is a funny and darkly suspenseful look at the joy of family, and how far we'll go to get it.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Playwrights Horizons
416 W 42nd St
New York, NY 10036

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Audiences expecting the laugh-a-minute banter and chock-a-block absurdity of Nicky Silver's early work are in a for a shock with the playwright's far more serious Three Changes, now making its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons. And yet, while the work borrows (consciously or not) at times from Shepard, Orton, and Pinter as it tells of the reunion of long-estranged brothers Nathan (Dylan McDermott) and Hal (Scott Cohen), it also stays firmly in past Silver territory. As in seminal works like Raised in Captivity, Silver reminds us that one cannot choose one's family, but one can ultimately choose the family one wishes to create.

Without question, Three Changes is a decidedly imperfect wo[...]

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Reviewed by Brian Scott Lipton on Sep 17, 2008