Play: i hate my friends
Reviewer: The Stingy Fringies
3 Stars
We love the concept of using a hotel room and conference room for a play.
We love squeezing into tiny elevators with the entire audience and watching
the actors work up close. We even love changing our identity from invisible
observers to active participants in the play.
But we don't love performances when the leading actors are clearly exhausted
and/or share zero chemistry. While we admire your work ethic, your rigorous
schedule (10 shows in 2 days!) may be detracting from your craft. We don't
love being lectured by a zombie, or watching someone half asleep go through
the motions of being kinky. We get that every day at the office. Don't you
drink coffee? Or take speed? You are actors, right? We think it comes down
to this: either cancel your 4:00 shows and take a quick nap, or cancel your
4:00 shows and have a quickie.
You do get points for the dog.
Play: I Hate My Friends
Reviewer: Rob Chase
4 Stars
This was a fascinating piece of theatre. I found myself wishing a number
of times that the lead character had more energy and wanted a bit more sense
for the character arcs in the ending, but it was very much worth seeing.
Unique and well executed, a marvelous concept. You just won't see many plays
that are set and staged in a hotel room.
Play: i hate my friends
Reviewer: Pat
5 Stars
There are only 10 seats for each performance of this amazing show, so get
there early! It is a theatre lover's dream, playing with the 4th wall in
a most intriguing way. The well-written and well-acted plot is made absolutely
fascinating by its incredible setting: the 10 audience members join the
actors in a small hotel room, and then move to a conference room in the
same hotel halfway through the show. The audience has the most intimate
experience of the characters' actions and feelings that I have ever experienced
in decades of enjoying theatre in small venues. |