DEINDE Review: Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
Photo by Justin Hoch. Pictured: David Ian Lee, Nitya Vidyasagar. Post by August Schulenburg.
Our second review of DEINDE is from Martin Denton of nytheatre.com, and it is a heartening response to the play. Please give it a read, and then get your tickets – we still have $14 tix for Wednesday and Thursday night this week with the code QUAMBI14.
On a personal note, I can still remember reading Martin’s review of Fovea Floods’ production of Bull Spears from around 2004 or 2005, and wishing that I might one day earn such a persuasive and passionate critical advocate. That such a day has come to pass leaves me dazed and deeply grateful.
I’m especially pleased he chose to excerpt one of Nabanita’s haiku from the 1st act. The act of writing is inevitably the act of falling in love with your characters, one by one, and this may very well be the moment for me where I fall for Nita. I love that it also struck a chord with Martin.
I also appreciate that he connected with the play’s choice to not condemn the new technology outright, and it has been very interesting to hear from audience members who would and would not loop in to DEINDE. If you’ve seen the play…would you?
1 Comment on "DEINDE Review: Martin Denton, nytheatre.com"
That’s my favorite question of the play. And while I enjoy plays that answer questions, that bring things to a conclusion, nothing is better than a play that gets under your skin by letting you imagine two potential futures. I am a looper, I would loop in. Only because I believe that I would want to be present for Humanity’s next big evolution. Why be scared of what we are to become? I don’t think there was a bad ending, either way, I think the terrific ending the play has now is just temporary fix for the human race. Once you open that Pandora’s box it cannot be closed, the technology can be replicated. Which means, Scientists would not be able to resist the idea of breaking the rules and revisiting the technology the next time a problem arises for humanity. The more I think about it the more I freaking love this play. I feel like such a nerd.