Beautiful People In a Living Room Doing NothingbyAlec Seymour
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Paul Donnelly:
18 Aug. 2022
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Who knew ennui could be so entertaining? Seymour adroitly demolishes the stock characters and hoary conventions of the good old-fashioned living room play. ”
Jim Siering:
17 Aug. 2022
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This is a funny, modern Theatre of the Absurd riff which reminds me of The Bald Soprano in its obsession with banality, indifference, and, in this case, upper middle-class boredom. And it has a gun. And sex. And a love triangle. ”
Charles Scott Jones:
17 Aug. 2022
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Ah, the repetitions, the banality, the emptiness! BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE IN A LIVING ROOM DOING NOTHING seems as if some yesteryear has crept into the present - through sheer apathy, through sheer want of a motive. Is Alec Seymour mocking Chekhov’s Three Sisters - as the references suggest? Or plays that come from character when the characters have nothing to offer? This is a fascinating satire that gives three actors so much to play with. Pass the rifle. You can almost feel the boredom in the room. ”
Samantha Marchant:
16 Aug. 2022
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An magnificent “ode” to the living room play! It went everywhere I hoped it would and beyond. Love it! ”
Rachael Carnes:
11 Aug. 2022
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This is a tight little snare drum of a play! Seymour crafts a cagey world with deft dialogue and these characters that could be mopey Jazz-age layabouts, or #influencers — The writer digs into their ennui and finds a rivulet of humor. Delicious rhythms here. So theatrical and whimsical and dark. Reminiscent of a Chas Addams cartoon or an Edward Gorey lithographic, spare, perfect, kinda horrifying. Love this play. ”
Alexander Perez:
17 Feb. 2022
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A hysterical absurdist romp that takes to task aesthetic, status, and the hollow nothings we fill our days with in a (mostly) futile effort to break free of the perfectly beautiful and agonizingly mundane merry-go-round that is existence. ”