The Interview

GO: THE INTERVIEW Playwright-director Michael Franco's disturbing drama opens with a prisoner (Michael Dunn) being tortured during a ruthless interrogation by a pair of suit-wearing men who appear to be government agents. At first the interrogation unfolds to a traditional good cop/bad cop formula, with one agent (Dylan Maddalena, interestingly sinister) authorizing the prisoner's being thumped with phone books and dunked in a water bucket and the other (Joe Hulser) desiring to take a more reasonable approach to ferreting out the information the prisoner supposedly knows. Before long, though, the story takes an unexpected turn into areas of complex moral ambiguity and metaphysics. Franco's taut staging is eerily suspenseful, as we start to q... full review

Interesting play that explores the nature of the powerful over the weak. Very well executed for a fringe show. I think the comedic tone at the top needed to be stronger to make the satire work, but this is a show worth seeing at the Fringe.... full review

Interesting concept, scary, pointed view of who we really might be/become/were/are. Fairly well-executed, fine performances from the cast. This show made us a bit sick to our stomachs. The only reason we didn't love it, is that it felt repetitive in places -- the point of some of the torture was well taken the first time around. ... full review

Creepy. Smart. Weirdly Funny. Intense. Sharply performed and directed. Very worth your time!... full review

The subject of this play intrigued me and I had heard great things. Many had said it was going to be a bit intense. I felt the opposite, In dealing with torture there needs to be a sense of fear. I never felt that fear, much of the stage combat was poorly blocked and it disconnected me from the piece. The ideas expressed in the writing have a lot of potential but the theatrical experience needs to be more immersive.... full review

I quite liked it. Here is me quite liking it on TalkinBroadway.com: http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/la/la374.html... full review

Intense, committed work from the actors, especially Michael Dunn. Totally on board with the play's sense of outrage, but also its wicked sense of humor. And the eerie "20th Century Boy" sequence is mesmerizing.... full review

Michael Franco, always a class act, jumps up a whole other level with this airtight, unnervingly funny/chilling study of secret interrogation tactics. It never goes where you think it will, and then it does, exactly when you're the least prepared. Staged by the playwright with just enough flash to keep us off guard, with remarkably resourceful lighting and sound design schemes, it finally comes off as well as it does due to a well-nigh perfect ensemble. Exceptional, a tonic to the manipulated depictions of such things in the media, wholly thought-provoking and fully deserving of a life after the Fringe. Bravi a tutti.... full review