LOVE
Off Broadway, Park Avenue Armory
Reviewed by Asya Gorovits
BOTTOM LINE: A heart-breakingly realistic play about the inhabitants of a temporary housing facility that celebrates love and humanity.
For LOVE, the vast space of the Park Avenue Armory's drill hall is “shrunk” to the size of a cramped communal space in a temporary housing facility. Some audience members are on plastic chairs that share the floor with the inhabitants of this gloomy establishment... This blurring of theatre and reality is at the heart of Alexander Zeldin’s play, which originated from interviewing and improvising scenes with people who lived in housing facilities in the UK...
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