
just a wearying lecture~The Hollywood Reporter
strangely gassy~New York Magazine
feels as sterile and lifeless as an interrogation, which it basically is~Associated Press
short, dense and dry drama at the Golden Theatre is often a head-scratcher-Daily News
heavily embroidered slip of a play….where ideas on eschatology, etymology, phenomenology and, yes, criminology are exchanged by intellectual (if not moral) equals~New York Times
LuPone and Winger are restrained to the point of somnambulance-Bloomberg News
a bewildering exercise in audience exclusion~NorthJersey.com
…the characters have no credible stage life; they exist only as puppets for Mamet’s ideas~The New Yorker
He does no favors for the thesps in this two-hander by enabling Debra Winger to drone on and on and Patti LuPone to swallow half her lines~Variety
More needlessly opaque debate than drama~Newsday
the writing, repetitive and blunt, falls short of the lofty aspirations~New York Post
sluggish and inert~Boston Globe
Meandering and academic debate that’s hard to follow~AM-NY
brusque badinage between opaque symbols~Entertainment Weekly
a droning, pompous essay brought to unnatural life~Backstage
Note: There were some mixed to positive reviews, most notably USA Today, and I have no opinion until I see it later this week.
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