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Drama / Characters: 2m, 2f / Interior
An ailing mother and her teenaged son flee Illinois and a crumbling marriage for the relative calm and safety of a midtown Manhattan hotel. Mom holds tickets to a popular musical about love among bohemians. Her son isn't interested, so Mom takes the kindly cabdriver instead, while the boy entertains a visitor from down the hall, an enigmatic, potentially dangerous young woman.
Kindness is a play about the possibility for sympathy in a harsh world and the meaning of mercy in the face of devastating circumstances.
Premiered at Playwrights Horizons, New York City in 2008.
"Compelling. A well-crafted mini-thriller, which keeps you in suspense until the final blackout." - Joe Dziemianowics, New York Daily News
"Rapp has raised some provocative questions about the prickly mother/son relationship he has drawn in such detail."- Marilyn Stasio, Variety
"Pungent, vivid...Rapp finds a gentle approach to his characters' physical and emotional pain without turning sentimental. His playful side is on display too." [Four stars] - Diane Snyder, Time Out New York
"Adam Rapp can write dense, tense, funny dialogue." - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
"A taut and involving dark comedy. Hilarious and unsettling." - Dan Bacalzo, TheatreMania.com
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Jillian Glover
reviewed Kindness on August 26, 2012
Kindness
4.5, rounded up. This is a really fascinating play with a very unusual subject: Jewish slave owners (and slaves) during the Civil War. Set on the eve and day of Lincoln's assassination, the play ingeniously weaves historical fact with some intriguing 'what ifs'. Despite a gruesome onstage leg amputation (which the author kindly gives some suggestions for staging in various degrees of verisimilitude), the play is ultimately redemptive, and the surprises keep coming right up to the final page/scene.
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