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Total Rating: 
***1/2
Previews: 
May 22, 2014
Opened: 
June 10, 2014
Ended: 
July 13, 2014
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Company/Producers: 
Manhattan Class Company
Theater Type: 
off-Broadway
Theater: 
Lucille Lortel Theater
Theater Address: 
121 Christopher Street
Website: 
mcctheater.org
Genre: 
Comedy-Drama
Author: 
Penelope Skinner
Director: 
Sam Gold
Review: 

Beautiful, sensuous Greta Gerwig shines in The Village Bikeby Penelope Skinner, directed by Sam Gold, as she turns on everyone in the theater except her non-functioning husband (Jason Butler Harner). It’s a play with very contemporary sexual relationships, including the free use of pornography for a frustrated pregnant woman. I suspect the title relates to a very old negative quip referring to a woman as “The Village Pump,” but we’re with her all the way in this one as she relates to the man she bought her bike from (Max Baker) and the plumber (Scott Shepherd).

Good actors, good set (by Laura Jellinek and lighting (by Mark Barton) — a very entertaining play with a very special, major-league actress in the lead.

Cast: 
Greta Gerwig (Becky), Cara Seymour (Jenny), Lucy Owen (Alice), Jason Butler Harner (John), Scott Shepherd (Oliver).
Technical: 
Lighting: Mark Barton. Set: Laura Jellinek
Critic: 
Richmond Shepard
Date Reviewed: 
July 2014