Neither of the two previous Hnath plays I've seen impressed me, but this cast is amazing. Cooper hasn't done a play in years -- it will be great to get him on stage again.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Well dang! That post that referenced this was so odd- out of the blue and strangely specific- but I still couldn't believe it. I'm glad it's happening- and with this cast. I'm a big fan of Hnath's work, and it's great that such a unique voice will make it to Broadway. And before he's a senior citizen!
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
His plays are hit or miss. Like The Christians - feel like I could appreciate it more for what it was trying to do rather than really enjoying watching it - and hated Red Speedo.