Theater Review: Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis (CookieRiverside) explores the troubled lives of residents and staffers in a NY women's halfway house in the world premiere of 'Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven'
Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis has long specialized in putting a spotlight on society's downtrodden and disaffected with such acclaimed plays asBetween Riverside and Crazy
Set in a rundown halfway house for women on New York's Upper West Side, the nearly three-hour work assembles a dizzying array of characters and situations, presented in short, episodic scenes. It's clear from the opening minutes, in which announcements are made of such activities as an "Incest Survivors Meeting" and a "You, Me and Hepatitis C" workshop, that the residents have had difficult lives indeed.
Then there's the staff, including the African-born Mr.
The sheer plethora of social ills on display, including drug addiction, alcoholism, sexual abuse, mental illness, domestic abuse, PTSD and governmental indifference to the lower rungs of society, proves a bit overwhelming. Guirgis, who usually writes with a tighter focus, has trouble keeping all of his narrative balls in the air, with the result that while some characters and plot elements are vividly rendered, others are given short shrift and make little impression.
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