Wow! This play is funny and brutal and tense and beautiful all at once. It is such a specific take on boyhood and friendship and adolescence and public education and the lives of kids today. The Pits is also so formally exciting, never resting on a trope of storytelling or theatricality but rather continuing to find new ways of showing us more about these three characters and this sometimes awful, sometimes exhilarating moment in their lives. This play is spectacular.
Wow! This play is funny and brutal and tense and beautiful all at once. It is such a specific take on boyhood and friendship and adolescence and public education and the lives of kids today. The Pits is also so formally exciting, never resting on a trope of storytelling or theatricality but rather continuing to find new ways of showing us more about these three characters and this sometimes awful, sometimes exhilarating moment in their lives. This play is spectacular.