Written by Terrence McNally
Directed by Michael Blakemore
NEW YORK TIMES:
"Mr. McNally can be a first-rate playwright. But even more than his recent “Some Men,” “Deuce” feels lazy. It’s a grab bag of synthetic scraps of sentimental truisms and grumpy-old-broad humor."
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NEW YORK POST:
"The book is frankly clunky. But time and time again it is luckily resuscitated by the music and the altogether remarkable performances from the whole cast under Harold Prince's inspired direction. "
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VARIETY:
"The comedy began life as a playlet written for a benefit and, even as a 95-minute one-act, shows its stretch marks. But anyone with a deep affection for the theater won't want to miss these rare birds bantering."
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NEWSDAY:
"But it would be patronizing to these formidable women to pretend they don't seem wedged into a vehicle too flimsy for their muscle."
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TIME OUT NY:
"Even by the standards of McNally’s recent output, the play is a low seed: a banal character study poached in naked exposition, bland nostalgia and the playwright’s usual brow-beating about homophobia. But the ladies look smashing, and remember most of their unmemorable lines; "
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THEATERMANIA:
" McNally's exercise is so devoid of drama and wit, okay, a few of the tennis in-jokes land, that many a theatergoer who's just forked over a tidy sum to watch it flare and fizzle has every right to wonder why these great ladies of the theater have agreed to appear onstage in it."
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