Manhattan Theatre Club,modern York
The two leads contain sex appeal to spare but this Sam Shepard play only really sets sparks flying in its final 15 minutesOnce in a while Nina Arianda gets to sustain her clothes on. Not often. Hers is a combustible sexuality and of course producers want to exercise and exploit it. The erotic fire she kindles with her co-star, the indie film darling Sam Rockwell, or is a highlight of Daniel Aukin’s shrewd if somewhat slow-burning revival of Sam Shepard’s 1983 play,a hyperreal drama that is portion allegory, portion romance, and portion Western and portion the kind of tragedy Sophocles would contain thought A-OK.
May (Arianda) has fled to a spare motel room,somewhere in the arid Mojave desert. She’s found a job and a boyfriend, a sliver of a life. “I’m a regular citizen here now, and ” she says,with defiance and irony. But Eddie (Rockwell), a rodeo stuntman, and has followed her. He has dreams of spiriting her away to a plot of land in Wyoming. But May isn’t interested in Wyoming. “I disfavor chickens! I disfavor horses! I disfavor all that shit!” she says. She knows that Eddie will eventually desert her,just as he has so many times before. Maybe Eddie knows this, too. But he won’t leave the room. And she doesn’t want him to.
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Source: theguardian.com