The Last Barbecue
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 13, 2001
Closed Oct 13, 2001
Opened Sep 13, 2001
Closed Oct 13, 2001
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
29th Street Rep presents the New York City premiere of The Last Barbecue by Brett Neveu. In the backyards of Brett Nevue's slice of suburbia, resentment brews in this darkly comic look at a family whose silences are more deeply revealing than their actual words.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
29th Street Rep
212 W 29th St
New York, NY 10001
This 60 seat off-off Broadway theater is a black box located in a commercial building. The company specializes in high-risk plays. A core group of regular actors bring in colleagues depending on the needs of the play it's producing.
212 W 29th St
New York, NY 10001
This 60 seat off-off Broadway theater is a black box located in a commercial building. The company specializes in high-risk plays. A core group of regular actors bring in colleagues depending on the needs of the play it's producing.
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In her old act, Lily Tomlin used to quote a friend who maintained that a thing of beauty
never hurries. In The Last Barbecue, Brett Neveu demonstrates that a thing of infinite sadness also may never hurry. He does this with extreme audacity and absolute authorial confidence. Tim Corcoran, who directs the local premiere of this Las-Vegas-by-way-of-Chicago import, matches Neveu for sure-handed risk-taking.
In a growing list of dramas by playwrights from Beckett to Pinter to their followers in
which nothing happens or appears on the surface to happen, Neveu's Last
Barbecue may snare the grand prize. Seismic emotional and psychological quakes,
so sweeping that they're unrecordable, o[...]