Written by Mark Schultz
Directed by Evan Cabnet
Synopsis: Brian and Stacey want a better life, the life they deserve. But what they're willing to do to get it will destroy their family, rip them apart...and finally get them into the Club.
NEW YORK TIMES:
" “The Gingerbread House” aims to be a dark, comic parable about our self-seeking, commodified age, but Mr. Schultz’s vision is too blurry to make the events of the play believable on any level."
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NEW YORK POST:
"Were it only about selfish yuppie parents living out a fairly common fantasy, "The Gingerbread House" would be predictable, albeit amusing. Schultz, however, takes us down a pretty twisty -- and twisted -- path. What he's really interested in is how people talk other people into doing things that are not necessarily in their best interest."
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
"It's a darkly funny, sometimes chilling, comedy with shades of Edward Albee about a quest for happiness and the American dream that becomes a very grim nightmare, very quickly."
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THEATERMANIA:
"And even if Schultz seems to have crammed in too many related ideas into this House -- with too much to say about each -- there are worse problems for a play to have. "
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VARIETY:
"The cast, design and direction of "The Gingerbread House" are all top-flight. Now, if only someone would do something about the play. Mark Schultz's underwritten domestic drama is never sure if it wants to be brutal, mannered satire or brutal, mannered tragedy, so it only really succeeds at mannerism and brutality. For about half an hour, Evan Cabnet's clever direction and thesp Sarah Paulson's utter conviction are able to cover for the playwright's one-note characters, but his thesis -- people suck -- doesn't sustain much action past a couple of amusingly outrageous scenes. "
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BACKSTAGE:
"As old as Hansel and Gretel and as new as the latest chapter in greed, Mark Schultz's The Gingerbread House is a strong work, a comedy of horror. Powerfully acted, with a cast that could easily shift to Broadway, the StageFarm presentation is an evening that leaps from jolt to jolt, climaxing in a scene so devastating it even shut up the guffawing audience males who thought everything was just too funny for words."
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