“John , like any great play, raises a lot of questions-not just about the human experience, but also about the state of contemporary theater, it doesn't provide many answers; it is not the playwright's responsibility to do so.... In John she co-opts the viewer for her own aesthetic use, heightening the tension onstage and deepening the quiet relationships between her characters. Through John, she displays an understanding that the audience is part of the theatrical experience, an inevitability as certain as a Chekhovian gun.”
— Slate
“Annie Baker's John is so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light... By not rushing things--by letting the characters develop as gradually and inevitably as rain or snowfall--Baker returns us to the naturalistic but soulful theatre that many of her contemporaries and near-contemporaries have disavowed in their rush to be 'postmodern.'”
— New Yorker
John
Year
2016
Pages
154
Praise
“John , like any great play, raises a lot of questions-not just about the human experience, but also about the state of contemporary theater, it doesn't provide many answers; it is not the playwright's responsibility to do so.... In John she co-opts the viewer for her own aesthetic use, heightening the tension onstage and deepening the quiet relationships between her characters. Through John, she displays an understanding that the audience is part of the theatrical experience, an inevitability as certain as a Chekhovian gun.”
— Slate
“Annie Baker's John is so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light... By not rushing things--by letting the characters develop as gradually and inevitably as rain or snowfall--Baker returns us to the naturalistic but soulful theatre that many of her contemporaries and near-contemporaries have disavowed in their rush to be 'postmodern.'”
— New Yorker
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