Domesticated – Location, Tickets, Reviews
After winning every imaginable honor for his last play, Clybourne Park (Pulitzer and Tony included), playwright Bruce Norris returns with a new project commissioned by Lincoln Center.
Domesticated explores the intersection of sex, politics, and gender roles as renowned actors Jeff Goldblum and Laurie Metcalf play Bill and Judy Pulver — a disgraced politician and his wife, dealing with the aftermath of a particularly gory sex scandal.
But this is hardly a traditional rebuilding-the-relationship kind of play; instead, it is a war. In the first act, Bill — the only male character in the play — hardly talks. He is silenced by the women around him, starting with his wife. In the second act, he gets himself in trouble because he can’t shut up. He is consumed by anger for the constant reprimands he has suffered for his wrongdoings. It is an intense play that makes you squirm uncomfortably and laugh at the same time, only to find that in this war there are no winners.
Critics justly extolled Metcalf and Goldblum’s performances almost universally, but were less unanimous about the overall success of the project. While New York Magazine called the production “a winner” and TheaterMania “searingly intelligent,” The New York Times lamented that “you grasp the basic argument so early that you start to feel that the play doesn’t really develop as it goes along.”
LOCATION
The Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center
155 West 65th Street
New York City
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RUNNING TIME
2 hours 10 minutes, one intermission
TICKETS
$77-$87 (click here for tickets)
DATES
Open run
REVIEWS
New York Times
After Extramarital Activities, Politician Looks for the Words
Newsday
Sex scandal tale resists convention
New York Magazine
The Good Wife employs the nuclear option in Domesticated
Theatermania
Clybourne Park playwright Bruce Norris pens a controversial and searingly intelligent exploration of sex in America.
Theater Pizzazz
Are We Meant to Be Monogamous?
Variety
Interesting as it is, the play would be a lot more compelling if Norris only knew when to ease up on the harangues.
CAST & CREW
(partial list)
Written by Bruce Norris
Directed by Anna D. Shapiro
Featuring Laurie Metcalf, Jeff Goldblum, Venessa Aspillaga, Mia barron, Robin de Jesus, Lizabeth Mackay, Emily Meade, Mary Beth Peil, Karen Pittman, Misha Seo