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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Thin, implausible ‘Revisionist’ fully fleshed out in
Dobama rendering</FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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The Morning Journal</FONT></FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN style="COLOR: "></SPAN></P>
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Theatre Critics</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: "></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">“Write what you know” is usually the advice followed by
fledgling authors when they first put pen to paper.</FONT><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Such is the case with actor-turned-playwright Jesse
Eisenberg.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He has so mastered the
art of depicting patronizing, self-centered, socially awkward characters in
films like “Social Network” and </FONT></SPAN><FONT
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color=#222222>“Now You See Me” </FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">that he has created
similar characters to portray in his own plays, which consist of “Asuncion,”
“The Revisionist” and, most recently, “The Spoils.” </FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">In his “The
Revisionist,” which premiered Off-Broadway in 2013 and is currently on stage at
the Dobama Theatre, a young, American writer named David arrives at the
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"
color=#333333>run-down Polish city of Szczecin and the well-worn flat of his
second cousin Maria.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Self-absorbed,
high-strung and thin-skinned, David has come hoping that the isolation and
radical change of scene will allow him to concentrate and complete his new
novel. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He makes no effort to be
gracious to Maria or show any appreciation for her hospitality.
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color=#333333><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt">eptuagenarian</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> Maria thinks that
David has come to visit her and learn about the family they lost in the
Holocaust and the many others depicted in the cherished photographs that cover
every surface in her modest apartment, designed with wonderful attention to
detail by Aaron Benson and Marcus Dana.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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color=#333333>Both David and Maria are in desperate need of human contact and
personal connection, but their generational, cultural and culinary differences
create barriers that only a bottle of vodka and some serious truth-telling can
penetrate.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">This is a lovely story but, as with the early works of
many fledgling authors, it is thinly told and full of implausible, forced and
structurally graceless moments.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What should be a small, delicate watercolor portrait is rendered with
expressionistic subjectivity, broad strokes and unrefined technique.</FONT><SPAN
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color=#333333>Fortunately, it fell into the hands of director Leighann
Delorenzo.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Her delicate touch has
tapped all that is heartfelt and beguiling in the script.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And her eye for casting has allowed it
to take form on stage. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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