The Book of Lambert
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 14, 2009
Closed Mar 1, 2009
Opened Feb 14, 2009
Closed Mar 1, 2009
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Leslie Lee's The Book of Lambert depicts the lives of six lost souls hiding from society in the subterranean depths of an abandoned NYC subway tunnel. Their leader is Lambert, an African-American man who has been hurt - possibly beyond repair - by his former love, a beautiful Caucasian woman. A bright but disillusioned ex-college professor, Lambert begins writing a prophetic book on life. In an effort to guide and re-focus this wayward flock, Lambert unleashes his own identity issues while coming face to face with the demons of his past.
Arthur French stars.
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Although Leslie Lee's "The Book of Lambert, currently at La MaMa, is billed as a world premiere and is set In the present, it's a revision of a play that Lee wrote 30 years ago. It shows. In both style and theme, the painfully dated play is dead on arrival and Cyndy A Marion's production amounts to an embalming.
The play depicts six lost souls who live in one of the New York subway system's abandoned tunnels. One of the play's many disappointments is its failure to bring adequate specificity and detail to portray life for these "mole people"; the characters may as well live on the same floor in a flophouse. Although Andis Gjoni's suitably grubby set includes a sunken strip of broken subway[...]