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"...with NEW ENGLAND, Richard Nelson has finally done it--he's written the smart, sharp, acridly funny play that the RSC's favorite American playwright has been skirting for ages.
The conceit of the play is typical Nelson--one culture displaced to another--but its emotional weight is not. There's a new-found urgency and pathos, allowing us to feel for characters whose own acute perceptions are at once their downfall and their salvation.
The setting is the Connecticut farmhouse of Englishman Harry Baker, an academic whose suicide in the opening scene draws together a family scattered across the States...
Has an American dramatist ever written an English houseful so deftly?
Not in my experience. In the sweetest of ironies for this of all writers, it's an American at the peak of his form who has given London's big subsidized companies the major new play that has eluded them all year."
Matt Wolf, Variety
This title is also in: RICHARD NELSON: PLAYS 1
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