Opened:
February 19, 2002
Ended:
March 31, 2002
Country:
USA
State:
New York
City:
New York
Company/Producers:
Manhattan Theater Club
Theater Type:
off-off-Broadway
Theater:
Manhattan Theater Club - Stage II
Theater Address:
West 55th Street
Phone:
90 min
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Jeff Cohen
Review:
In his gentle drama Four, Christopher Shinn displays a Kenneth Lonergan-style talent for letting quirky, flawed but very believable characters quietly go through their paces, colliding with each other and leaving both grace notes and scars. Four keeps us guessing what will occur in the pairings of Joe, a married black man and June, a closeted, 15-year-old gay teen, as well as Joe's daughter and a charming, streetwise basketball player and minor thief. Whatever fireworks fly in this piece, set on the Fourth of July, are internal and emotional, making the play occasionally unfocused but mostly involving and even touching.
Parental:
adult & strong sexual themes
Cast:
Keith Nobbs (June), Isiah Whitlock, Jr (Joe), Pascale Armand (Abigayle), Armando Riesco (Dexter).
Other Critics:
PERFORMING ARTS INSIDER Richmond Shepard X / TOTALTHEATER Jason Clark +
Critic:
David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed:
March 2002
