The Interview

ensemble theatre · the open fist · Ages 13+ · United States

world premiere
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Review by DAVID C. NICHOLS

June 30, 2013
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My overall impression

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.

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