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I saw this play last night and it is an absolute treasure. If you enjoy live performance you have to do yourself a favor and see this production before it leaves town after this weekend. If you believe, like I do, that theater needs to tell the story of the human condition than you will agree that this is the show of our times.
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Uhm...actually, it's an interesting but not very emotionally engaging piece, sound in its ideas but a bit flat in its execution -- particularly when hampered by having to read gobs and gobs of text on supertitles. (If you are a Spanish-speaker, you will undoubtedly have a richer experience than monolinguists like myself.) It's not bad, but the praise it's getting baffles me.
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That's certain your opinion and you're welcome to it (I take issue with your opening of "Uhm... actually" as if to suggest my praise is wrong). I am a monolinguist as well and the subtitles didn't bother me. Just capture the text with your eyes, get the sense of context and focus on the scene. I feel like I spent more time on the main action than on the subtitle screen.

I was also very emotionally engaged with each of the main characters. The style of narrating took a bit to get used to but by 10 minutes in I was totally captured by the story telling. That style may have distanced you, I don't know.

What I do know, though, is that it was a beautiful night of theater I'm likely never to forget. I'm only sorry you couldn't share that same experience.

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