Entertainment'The Visit' reunites Jefferson Mays and Darko Tresnjak at Pasadena Playhouse
Variety finds the 1950s absurdist comedy too smug in its bleak view of humanity, but says Jefferson Mays and Melinda Page Hamilton make it worth seeing.
TLDR
Variety describes Pasadena Playhouse’s 'The Visit' as a 1950s absurdist tragicomedy that reunites Jefferson Mays with director Darko Tresnjak after 'Amadeus.' The review faults the comedy’s bleak view of humanity as too smug, while singling out Mays and Melinda Page Hamilton as reasons to see it.
'The Visit' reunites Jefferson Mays and Darko Tresnjak at Pasadena Playhouse
Variety finds the 1950s absurdist comedy too smug in its bleak view of humanity, but says Jefferson Mays and Melinda Page Hamilton make it worth seeing.
TLDR
Variety describes Pasadena Playhouse’s 'The Visit' as a 1950s absurdist tragicomedy that reunites Jefferson Mays with director Darko Tresnjak after 'Amadeus.' The review faults the comedy’s bleak view of humanity as too smug, while singling out Mays and Melinda Page Hamilton as reasons to see it.
