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The Conscientious Objector
410 W 42nd St (between Ninth and Tenth Aves)
Midtown West | Map212-279-4200
Subway: A, C, E to 42nd St–Port Authority | Directions
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Tickets: $40
Description
When the characters in Michael Murphy’s biodrama are not actually reading aloud from newspapers—which they do with wearying regularity—they might as well be. In this attenuated survey of Martin Luther King Jr. (D.B. Woodside), Lyndon Johnson (John Cullum) and the Vietnam War, nearly every line sounds like a paraphrase from an op-ed column or biography: This is one from the history books, boys, and the exposition is cruelly exposed in scene after awkward scene. Languidly directed by Carl Forsman, the actors try in vain to give the play some shape, but the story winds up sinking with a whimper, drowned in a tepid bathos.—AFWhen
Apr 19 2008 8pm
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