Written by Gina Gionfriddo
Directed by Peter DuBois
Synopsis: A newlywed couple fixes up two romantically challenged friends: wife's best friend, meet husband's sexy and strange new co-worker. When an evening calculated to bring happiness takes a dark turn, crisis and comedy ensue in this wickedly funny new play that asks what we owe the people we love and the strangers who land on our doorstep.
NEW YORK TIMES:
"Gina Gionfriddo’s comedy of bad manners, a tangled tale of love, sex and ethics among a quartet of men and women in their 30s, is as engrossing as it is ferociously funny, like a big box of fireworks fizzing and crackling across the stage from its first moments to its last. "
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NEW YORK POST:
"The play's themes are dealt with too baldly, and the situations often seem contrived. But "Becky Shaw" exerts a hypnotic pull, thanks in large part to the wonderfully witty dialogue and complex characterizations. "
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
"A social study of haves and have-nots and the blurry line between the two, "Becky Shaw" is slick and stylish, but it buckles under too much self-consciously clever dialogue and a murky message. "
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THEATERMANIA:
" Unfortunately, her new play Becky Shaw -- now at Second Stage after a critically acclaimed run at last year's Humana Festival -- is as bogus as a Bernie Madoff-like Ponzi scheme, and made none the better by Peter DuBois' often poor direction and some surprisingly bad performances. "
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VARIETY:
"Gina Gionfriddo's "Becky Shaw" is a blithely cynical and devastatingly funny play about ... well, it's hard to say what the point of it is, exactly. But scribe's witty observations on the emotional damage inflicted by neurotic people in the name of love is such a painful pleasure that probing for deeper meaning seems stuffy, as well as pointless. "
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BACKSTAGE:
"But playwright Gina Gionfriddo manages to make the dissections and recriminations resulting from these unseen scenes fascinating. She is more interested in how people deal with the aftermath of dramatic confrontations. She also creates characters who are neither altruistically pure nor black-heartedly manipulative. They're a little bit of both. They occupy a gray zone, and that's where real people dwell. "
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amNY:
"Unfortunately, it’s not until the very end of the play that it actually makes sense thanks to some twists and turns in the plot. Until then, it feels too meandering and stale. Peter DuBois’ production has little physical staging and consists entirely of long, extended conversations. "
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TIME OUT NY:
" Although it presses many social buttons in passing, the play is primarily concerned with the personal intersections of honesty and responsibility, and Gionfriddo is remarkably good at picking out details from amid a wide view."
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