Alice Ripley/Pink Unicorn

[ASOOS04]

Posted: 5/4/19 at 2:26pm

Any word on this? Subject matter is interesting and a one woman show with Ripley is intriguing....

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 5/5/19 at 11:40pm

I just bought a ticket on TDF. I’m intrigued as well.

[annang]

Posted: 5/10/19 at 4:07am

Anyone go last night?

[ASOOS04]

Posted: 5/10/19 at 7:06pm

I am going tomorrow, matinee. Will report back. I heard from a friend who was there who said the audience was in tears. I am excited!

The production photos look good. 

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 5/12/19 at 9:49pm

I’m a bit speechless.

I counted about 30 seats tonight and there were roughly 20 people.

This was so incredibly intimate, emotional, and special beyond words.

It is so beautiful, funny, moving and gripping.

Alice Ripley is giving one of the best performances I’ve ever seen in my entire life, and I’ve seen well over 500 shows in New York in the last 15 years.

How she manages to spend an hour and forty minutes on a practically bare stage and hold the hearts and attention of the audience in the palm of her hands is nothing short of remarkable. It is an incredibly nuanced, careful performance. A masterclass and absolutely effortless.

If you miss this you are truly letting yourself down.

Updated On: 5/13/19 at 09:49 PM

[ASOOS04]

Posted: 5/12/19 at 11:58pm

I agree with above! I can’t believe what an absolutely exquisite piece of theatre this is...

Not to sound hyperbolic but I have lived in NY for 20 years and see 2 shows a week. This is in my top 3. I feel as though once I have had time to process it, it may just catapult to the very top.

Speechless is pretty much the only way to describe it..

[KnewItWhenIWasInFron]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 4:54pm

ASOOS04 said: "Any word on this? Subject matter is interesting and a one woman show with Ripley is intriguing...."

Hopefully, some work has been done on the play:

http://www.startribune.com/mpls-comedy-centers-on-a-mother-whose-child-came-out-as-none-of-the-above/479406183/

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 5/13/19 at 5:02pm

I didn't particularly care for this. Ripley is my no means untalented, but she called for line several times, stumbled over words (calling her character by her child's name and vice versa), as well as a pretty bad Texas accent. The piece is also overwritten at 1:40 considering the character says the same things over and over. There's no real struggle in the character either with Ripley's character not understanding her child but never disowning or anything harsh. 

I also felt the writer knew nothing of Texas or the American south with mostly cliche jokes about people (they're named Earl and Junior!) and she seemed to have a great passion for body/fat shaming people for a writer so focused on preaching acceptance no matter what. I looked it up and could only find the author was from Canada but no idea if she was raised in Texas or not so apologies if she was, but it all just came across as "aren't these people backwards in 'Murica!" to me.