Mr. Wolf at South Coast Repertory

Mr. Wolf

South Coast Repertory
655 Town Center Drive Costa Mesa

Theresa is 17 years old, and she can draw maps of the cosmos. She understands the universe—how and why it came to be. She owes all that to a man named Mr. Wolf. Now the only life she has ever known is coming to an end. She's being taken away—turned over to people who are strangers to her. How can they possibly understand her needs, when they seem to be lost, too? Recommendation: High school and above. Profanity.

Thru - May 3, 2015

Price: $22

Stage: Julianne Argyros Stage

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 714-708-5555

www.scr.org

South Coast Repertory Seating Charts

Nearby Restaurants

Mr. Wolf Reviews

Average Rating based on 8 reviews

Highly Recommended
Recommended
Somewhat Recommended
Not Recommended

Los Angeles Times - Not Recommended

"...Emmes' production compounds the hesitancy in the writing. Tenney and Martinez are unable to make the awkwardly rendered meeting between Michael and Julie believable. They're playing words on a page - and often contrived words at that."

Read Full Review

- Charles McNulty

LA Weekly - Somewhat Recommended

"...As Theresa asks late in the play, when she sees a horse for the first time, how is it possible that some things are so big and she is so small? Whether audiences think Joseph's play is big or small might depend on how much they feel like engaging with the play after they've left the theater."

Read Full Review

- Joel Beers

The Hollywood Reporter - Somewhat Recommended

"...Conflict between Julie and Hana over the family's changing dynamic requires greater development by the playwright, as does Hana's attempt to reunite with Michael through blackmail. Though Mr. Wolf is polished in its broad strokes, including concept, plot, mystery and especially James' accomplished performance, it remains hampered by underworked secondary and tertiary conflicts and characters."

Read Full Review

- Jordan Riefe

LA Splash - Recommended

"...Although he briefly utilizes a tired cliché in the second act, Joseph's script still possesses a multilayered dimensionality, which matches the brilliance of the actors."

Read Full Review

- Peter A. Balaskas

Stage Scene LA - Somewhat Recommended

"...Rajiv Joseph's takes a provocative look at the human consequences of a despicable crime twelve years after its perpetration in his hit-and-miss World Premiere drama Mr. Wolf, a play I found powerful and affecting in its more realistic moments but frustrating and perplexing in its attempts at the poetic and profound. In either case, performances alone make it worth a look-see."

Read Full Review

- Steven Stanley

Examiner - Somewhat Recommended

"...Unlike the hunt in "Bengal Tiger In The Bagdad Zoo", Joseph's Pulitzer Prize winning play, I found myself on the hunt for some rhyme and reason to be excited or enthralled with Joseph's setup after Mr. Wolf died. Surely a play about children's abductions couldn't be more relevant, but this is more a story about loss, tragedy, trauma, grief and coping but Joseph missed the boat by not giving us more of the one character who was the most intriguing, Mr. Wolf. I couldn't help but thinking what that would look like."

Read Full Review

- Carol Davis

OC Register - Recommended

"...To say that "Mr. Wolf" exposes emotional trauma is to understate what Joseph has created. Tenney and Martinez bravely show how Michael and Julie have been through the wringer. Tenney's Michael is incredibly sad and angry but also pensive. Martinez's Julie is heartbreakingly fragile and also often frantic."

Read Full Review

- Eric Marchese

Cultural Weekly - Somewhat Recommended

"...And that may well be Joseph's intent. But isn't theatre the place where we are prepared to surrender to our deepest emotions? The place where we want to feel everything? Process everything? There is no catharsis here. This Mr. Wolf leaves us feeling more numb than moved - as if engaged in watching the solving of a complex equation rather than the unraveling of a dreadfully human drama, the outcome of which, once this child is found, has yet to play itself out."

Read Full Review

- Sylvie Drake

Mr. Wolf at South Coast Repertory

Mr. Wolf

Mr. Wolf Reviews

Los Angeles Times - Not Recommended

LA Weekly - Somewhat Recommended

The Hollywood Reporter - Somewhat Recommended

LA Splash - Recommended

Stage Scene LA - Somewhat Recommended

Examiner - Somewhat Recommended

OC Register - Recommended

Cultural Weekly - Somewhat Recommended

Explore More

Other Sites