Sincerity Forever

by Mac Wellman

In 2003, The Village Voice gave a Lifetime Achievement Award toMac “…[he] has long situated himself on the frontier of new forms. He’s not only an experimental dramatist of the first rank, but also an eloquent champion of the avant-garde…. Like Beckett’s characters, the figures in his work inhabit both a purely theatrical world and a space that will not let you forget the social realities compounding the existential mystery.”

Genres: Plays

First published December 1, 2005

Reviews

[Janine · Rating 2 out of 5]

Juvenile writing for the most part. Liked the message, and some moments were actually pretty cool, but could not get over the “shock-humor”. The description says the author is Cutting-Edge and if you’re offended, go somewhere else. It was not offensive, it was just cringy, to be completely honest.

[J · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's really hard for me to review a play that's just over 30 pages long and that I didn't like at all. It's even harder when some of the pages are repetitions of text from early in the play, and when I didn't like ANY of the text, or the characters, or the content, because the content seems to be "AMERICA SUCKS, PEOPLE SUCK, WE ARE DUMB, WHAT IS WRONG WITH US?" Literally the most interesting part of this play for me was wondering how actors could memorize long lists of seemingly random adjectives and expletives.

Helping this play avoid one-star-dom was the fact that it railed against triteness and wasn't trite, and the last line was actually funny and appropriate. As far as the rest of it goes, um. It is something I am never interested in seeing or re-reading, I will say that much.

[Daniel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Extra star for audaciousness.