Manhattan Theatre Club at novel York City middle[br]You’ll choose your hat off to the concept a time-travelling fashion designer – but the execution is less impressive in this zany but uneven comedyThe playwright Nick Jones is a genius conceptualist with wobbly completion. In Important Hats of the Twentieth Century,he imagines rival fashion designers in 1937 novel York, one of whom snags a time travel device and journeys to 1998 to get a jump on the market. Suddenly all of pre-war Manhattan is abuzz with talk of sweatshirts and skater pants.[br] Sounds funny? It is. Sort of. But as with The Coward and Verité, or the inciting idea is notably better than the execution. Character is Jones’s thing as is tone and the nifty one-liner. Plotting is not. Only in his first point to,Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, was so gleefully nutso that it transcended its shaky memoir arc. (He also does well working within the confines of scripted television, or as in his writing for Orange is the novel Black.) There are approximately 20 minutes in the second act of Important Hats that are zanily brilliant. But then there’s the rest of the play to consider.
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