Chasing Pleased opened final night time on Theatre Row. This contemporary comedy explores self-discovery, love, id, and what precisely happiness is. Going down in Provincetown Ma., the set by Christian Fleming appears to be like extra like Connecticut and till they talked about Provincetown within the script.
The play revolves round Nick (a likable Spencer Aste) whose lover has died and is now in quest of a substitute. Because the motion begins Nick and Brad (Schyler Conaway), a not so shiny, however scorching hunk emerge from the bed room, simply as Nick’s ex-wife Helen (Jenny Bennett), arrives for the week to inform Nick she wants his assist. Proper after Brad leaves, his boyfriend Rob (Christopher James Murray) exhibits as much as beat the shit out of Nick, as Helen calms him down. Within the meantime it’s Nick’s mom’s Maria Antoinette LaVecchia (Broadway’s Torch Tune, and A View From the Bridge) flip as much as go to. She claims she was visited by alien’s and that George Clooney has a romantic curiosity in her.
Playwright Michel Wallerstein, has some intelligent dialogue, however the plot is predictable and the sections the place we’re learn a part of the ebook “Chasing Pleased” and are made to reply, doesn’t add to the plot.
Director Alexa Kelly, retains the motion transferring, nevertheless it does appear to be a few episodes of a likeable sitcom. The present runs over 2 hours. Ms. Kelly, additionally will get so much out of her proficient solid.
The lighting design by Joyce Liao, costume’s by and sound design by Joel Abbott is properly executed.
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Chasing Pleased: Theatre Row 410 West forty second Avenue till November eleventh.
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Originally posted 2023-10-20 04:03:59.