Written by Clifford Odets
Directed by Mike Nichols
Synopsis:
The play, which premiered on Broadway in 1950, is about a down-on-his luck alcoholic actor and his unhappy wife, whose fortunes look to change when he is offered a role by a hot-shot director.
NEW YORK TIMES:
"Instead what keeps you vaguely but uncomfortably on tenterhooks is wondering whether three of the finest actors around can make you care, for a single second, about any of these questions before the play ends. Sorry to jump to the last page, folks, but the answer is no. "
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NEW YORK POST:
"These three are all heart-rendingly credible - it's among the finest acting of the season - and transcend the simplistic writing to leap into the reality at which Odets surely, and sometimes not so surely, aimed. "
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
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THEATERMANIA:
"But the news turns out not to be so exciting now that the production has arrived. Although it's a workman-like treatment of the play, it doesn't rise to the inspired level Nichols usually reaches when he's calling the shots. Moreover, two of the central trio aren't doing as much with the pithy Odets speeches as they might. "
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NEWSDAY:
"Whatever troubles did or did not propel Mike Nichols' staging to last night's opening - including a star unable to remember lines and a director willing to cut entire scenes - the result is a subtle, engrossing and deeply straightforward shaping of a far-from-perfect script. "
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NEW YORK MAGAZINE:
"“Lady, you ride that man like a broom,” Bernie tells Georgie. Nichols’s revival lets us feel the impact of lines like that one, but it’s not always the right kind of impact: They sometimes hit like mallets when they ought to crack like whips. "
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NEW YORK SUN:
" The schadenfreude-pumped audience, ears cocked for the slightest flub from its leading man, imbues “The Country Girl” — a decidedly lesser Odets effort under ordinary circumstances — with a meta-theatrical hum that it would never otherwise have, stifling unkind chortles at the vaguest mention of memorization and cues. "
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TIME OUT NY:
" In Nichols’s account of this talky backstage drama, there’s not much life in the wings; the play flaps and flaps, but doesn’t take flight. "
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