Pterodactyls at Culver Studios

Pterodactyls

Culver Studios
9336 Washington Blvd Culver City

A classic dysfunctional family is the vehicle for a descent into chaos, and this viciously hilarious yet touching story addresses the classic question: "Why are we here?" PTERODACTYLS suggests that our extinction is beginning not with an asteroid or an ice age but rather with a severed connection to the ones closest to us. Nominated for various awards including a Drama Desk award for Best Play, PTERODACTYLS is an unmissable adventure by the award-winning writer of The Lyons, Nicky Silver--one the freshest new playwrights of this generation.

Presented by Pop Up Theater

Thru - Sep 24, 2017

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm

Price: $25

Stage: The Commissary

Show Type: Comedy/Drama

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Edge - Somewhat Recommended

"...There is a fine line between outrageous satire and non-thinking buffoonery in the theater. Nicky Silver's 1993 bizarre comedy, "Pterodactyls" takes a lighter look at a disintegrating family -- one of the many dysfunctional family plays out there. Lighter but, as it turns out, not particularly intriguing."

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- Dale Reynolds

Stage Scene LA - Somewhat Recommended

"...Director Melanie Weisner does a mostly effective job of handling Pterodactyls' tonal shifts as summer turns to autumn turns to winter in a production that would benefit considerably from a stronger lead performance."

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- Steven Stanley

Stage Raw - Somewhat Recommended

"...Director Melanie Weisner gets strong performances from her ensemble, but her staging and pacing fall short of the requirements of the play, which needs to be tighter and sharper to reach its full potential. Considering it's been created in a studio commissary and isn't credited to anybody in the program, the set - the interior of the Duncan home - is actually pretty good. Silver's play may have been more startling when it was first produced in 1993; now it seems more familiar and a tad pretentious (we're the dinosaurs heading to extinction – get it?) - although it still has enough acerbic humor to be entertaining."

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- Terry Morgan

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Stage Scene LA - Somewhat Recommended

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