←Recommendations of Beautiful People In a Living Room Doing Nothing

Who knew ennui could be so entertaining? Seymour adroitly demolishes the stock characters and hoary conventions of the good old-fashioned living room play.

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.

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.

An magnificent “ode” to the living room play! It went everywhere I hoped it would and beyond. Love it!

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.

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.