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REVIEW: Omnium Gatherum


by Kenneth Jones

Playbill.com

Omnium Gatherum, the fevered absurdist drama by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros where pundits and plutocrats dine while the world burns, will close Nov. 30 at Off-Broadway's Variety Arts Theatre.

The play, which has as a surprise dinner guest a terrorist who brought horror to Manhattan, provoked thought, prompted some anger (there have been walkouts due to the subject matter) and earned laughter and applause for its ambition.

It opened Sept. 25 following a premiere at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville earlier this year. Previews in New York began Sept. 9.

The play was born shortly after the terrorist attacks of 2001. In the days following Sept. 11, Rebeck and Gersten Vassilaros, longtime friends, watched countless hours of CNN and talked about the events and the way they were being interpreted by television's army of talking heads. Soon the heated discussions and debates between the playwrights flowed into a drama, in which the Western World's intellectual elite gather at a hellish dinner party to hash out the world's problems over several cases of red and white....

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