The Understudy by Theresa Rebeck

The Understudy Reviews

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  Shawn Deal

  Another good play about the rehearsal process and some of the back ground doings when it comes to a play.
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  Kelly

  Weak tea. Theresa Rebeck has skill, so the dialogue moves along nicely. And yet. There’s nothing even remotely realistic in this play’s portrayal of either the mechanics of theater production or the inner life of its practitioners. My most charitable assessment is that this play was written as pure dalliance; a product meant to divert audiences in communities with little or no interest in professional artistry. It’s piffle.
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  Lily the Bibliophile

  This play was funny, but it lacked the emotional depth that other plays can achieve with less on-page character interaction and less dialogue. The excerpts from the play within the play dragged on, and the play's theme of the arbitrary nature of showbusiness managed to be nonexistent at the beginning and way too heavy-handed during the play's conclusion.
  
  Reading this after reading Stephen Adly Guirgis'
  Jesus Hopped the A Train was a letdown, to say the least. I will always be a Stephen Adly girl, what can I say? 🤷🏻‍♀️
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  Jeff

  What a curious play that wants to be a lot of different things--showbiz parody. theatrical farce, romantic comedy, and Kafka-esque fable--all at once. It ultimately won me over with it's sweet and melancholy final moments, but it is probaly too much of a theatrical hippogriph to ever really work.
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  Leah

  Well written kind of odd play.
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  Landon Moss

  Big money Bruce and One take Jake.
  
  Didn’t feel much while reading or once I finished, great dialogue though.
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  Luke

  Okay, I'll admit...I haven't actually read the script. But I saw the play produced at Otterbein University and it was AMAZING. It was so incredible! Maybe the writing quality isn't great, but it produces a great show in the end.
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  Lauri

  I really enjoyed this play. A little weak in writing and plot in the middle of the play, but overall a great story.
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  Taylor

  This was definitely amusing and self-aware, which I like but it's not super memorable for me.