Enjoy
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 6, 2010
Closed May 1, 2010
Opened Apr 6, 2010
Closed May 1, 2010
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Running Time:
1hr. 30min.
1hr. 30min.
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http://www.59e59.org/shows/Enjoy.html
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
It's Gen X vs. Gen Y in this offbeat comedy of 21st century manners, that follows the romantic adventures of employees in a Tokyo manga café. A panorama, by one of Japan's cutting-edge storytellers, of young workers adrift amidst economic turbulence and social change.
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The neurotic angst, aimlessness, ageist bigotry, and navel-gazing egoism of contemporary Japanese twenty- and thirtysomethings is shown in painful relief in the inarticulate sputterings of Toshiki Okada's Enjoy, now being presented by The Play Company at 59E59 Theaters.
While there's certainly dramatic pith in Enjoy which is not specific to Japan -- many theatergoers should be able to identify with the characters' fears of aging and homelessness -- the work's cloying layers of artifice make it exceedingly difficult to experience any real empathy.
The play unfolds in the unfurnished break room of a manga (comic book) café (grimly designed by Mimi Lien); but the performers inhabit t[...]