There is no need to comment much on this turkey. It's called "GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES" and in it playwright Rajiv Joseph has come up with two of the most obnoxious people to land on a New York stage in years and since they are the only two people on stage this makes for as irritating an evening as I've had in a very long time.
Mr. Joseph's play[to use the term loosly] concerns two childhood friends who keep running into each other over a period of thirty years to compare the scars and physical calamities of their lives, and if you are bored reading about this that's ok because I am bored writing about it.
The usually talented Scott Ellis has provided routine stage direction and the two actors[Jennifer Carpenter and Pablo Schreiber] give the impression of just wanting it to be over.
"GRUESOME PLAYGOUND INJURIES" is flat, tastless and dull. One can only imagine what Mr. Joseph's next play will be will be like. It is called " Bengal Tiger At The Baghdad Zoo" and is due on Broadway in March with Robin Williams starring.
At The Second Stage Theatre 305 West 43rd Street N.Y.C.
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Does this get your vote as the worst play of the current season?
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