Title: This might be better on stage
Product review: This play (and this playwright) have been getting a lot of attention in the last couple of years, so I was expecting something new and exciting. There was nothing really new here, however. It is pretty straitforward realism, with a fairly interesting story set-up: 2 young American friends, traveling around Amsterdam together, both get attracted to the same woman. She only likes one of them - arrogant, entertaining, hotshot Davis, who has no intention of taking her seriously. Lonely, melancholy playwright Matt might really appreciate her, but he does not turn her on. The girl is a French prostitute who is quiet and sweet and apparently looking for a cool American boyfriend. The dialogue is not very interesting, pretty standard college guy talk. I got bored after 10-15 pages and skipped to the end. It was not terrible, but if this is the best he has got, then Adam Rapp is not on his way to being the next Albee or Miller.
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