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Total Rating: 
***
Previews: 
March 11, 2003
Opened: 
March 31, 2003
Ended: 
June 29, 2003
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Company/Producers: 
Ron Kastner
Theater Type: 
Broadway
Theater: 
Circle in the Square
Theater Address: 
1633 Broadway
Phone: 
(212) 239-6200
Running Time: 
90 min
Genre: 
Comedy-Drama
Author: 
Yasmina Reza
Director: 
Matthew Warchus
Review: 

As with Yasmina Reza's Art - in which there are three "takes" by three male friends on the extravagant purchase of an abstract artwork - her new piece re-plays the same awkward scene three times. Important guests arrive an evening too soon: not exactly a new idea in drama. And it requires an immense Suspension of Disbelief to equate the suppressed hysteria of John Turturro with the behavior of an insecure and very minor French Astrophysicist.

Nonetheless, Helen Hunt is beautiful as his wife. Linda Edmond is almost heart-breaking as the humiliated wife of the Chief Honcho French Astrophysicist. But the couples don't have to be French: this is a generic play.

Parental: 
profanity, adult themes
Cast: 
Helen Hunt, John Turturro, Linda Emond, Brent Spiner.
Technical: 
Set/Costumes: Mark Thompson; Lighting: Hugh Vanstone; Sound: Christopher T. Cronin; Music: Gary Yershon.
Miscellaneous: 
This review first appeared in NYTheatre-wire.com
Critic: 
Glenn Loney
Date Reviewed: 
April 2003