If you're in the mood for something different - edgy and uncomfortable - check out
The Wife, now playing downtown at the
Access Theater on White Street and Broadway. Sometimes you need a change of pace and Tommy Smith has penned a work that's sure to leave you reeling and thinking when you leave the massive open floor plan performance space.
A Hasidic couple in NYC is very unhappy. They lost a baby a few years ago and she hasn't been intimate with him since. He visits prostitutes. She wants to leave the marriage and return to Israel. She secretly finds work cat sitting for a young white neighbor. He's nice but a little "off". His ex-girlfriend is one of the prostitutes her husband has encountered. The prostitute's daughter crosses paths with the husband. The guy visits the store where the husband works, mentions the wife and upsets the husband. The neighbor guy ends up killing the daughter in the woods and gets arrested. The prostitute and the wife end up taking a train trip. Everyone's got problems in this play and it doesn't end happily for just about any of them. Through the dark and crazy plot connections are made, paths crossed, and lives destroyed.
All this and
more bat-shit-psycho crazy in 75 minutes with no intermission. It's intense, it's dark, and it's not your mother's afternoon soap opera. The acting is top notch and the writing is superb. Don't be shy - leave Broadway for an evening and shake things up in your life. It's worth well more than the subway ride there and back and you'll get quite a workout climbing the 4 flights of stairs to get to the theatre!
A Hasidic couple in NYC is very unhappy. They lost a baby a few years ago and she hasn't been intimate with him since. He visits prostitutes. She wants to leave the marriage and return to Israel. She secretly finds work cat sitting for a young white neighbor. He's nice but a little "off". His ex-girlfriend is one of the prostitutes her husband has encountered. The prostitute's daughter crosses paths with the husband. The guy visits the store where the husband works, mentions the wife and upsets the husband. The neighbor guy ends up killing the daughter in the woods and gets arrested. The prostitute and the wife end up taking a train trip. Everyone's got problems in this play and it doesn't end happily for just about any of them. Through the dark and crazy plot connections are made, paths crossed, and lives destroyed.
All this and more bat-shit-psycho crazy in 75 minutes with no intermission. It's intense, it's dark, and it's not your mother's afternoon soap opera. The acting is top notch and the writing is superb. Don't be shy - leave Broadway for an evening and shake things up in your life. It's worth well more than the subway ride there and back and you'll get quite a workout climbing the 4 flights of stairs to get to the theatre!