Eight
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 11, 2009
Closed Jan 25, 2009
Opened Jan 11, 2009
Closed Jan 25, 2009
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Running Time:
2hr. 20min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 20min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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Formed around a survey that asked twenty-somethings what defined their generation, playwright Ella Hickson responds to their almost unanimous response of 'apathy', with a play that finds the glimmers of faith amidst wholesale cynicism. Eight moves seamlessly from despair to hilarity as its characters search for meaning in a morally and spiritually bankrupt Britain. Spend an evening with eight beguiling oddballs from a generation trying to find its feet in faithless 2008.
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A hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe -- and winner of the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award -- writer-director Ella Hickson's Eight is now making its US debut at PS 122. But this uneven and lengthy evening of eight monologues, spread out over two acts, may leave some viewers wondering what the fuss was about. And while the varying abilities of the youthful cast is perhaps to be expected, it's surprising how much the quality of the writing differs from piece to piece.
The finest of the individual monologues is delivered by Solomon Mousley as Miles, a survivor of the 7/7 London bombings in 2005, who walks away from his life after the incident believing that his survival was merely by cha[...]