The Assassination Of Leon Trotsky at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble

The Assassination Of Leon Trotsky

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble
2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd Los Angeles

THE ASSASSINATION OF LEON TROTSKY: A COMEDY is a world premiere play for theatre lovers! Part Picasso at the Lapine Agile, part Noises Off, we find ourselves in the midst of a play about Leon and Natalya Trotsky's final days in Mexico as guests of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, when a group of actors revolts against the playwright and turns his world upside down. THE ASSASSINATION OF LEON TROTSKY: A COMEDY is outrageous, sexy, and completely unpredictable fun. A killer new comedy from the team that brought you last years smash-hit, critically-acclaimed Mutually Assured Destruction.

Thru - Jul 28, 2013

Price: $25-$30

Show Type: Comedy

Box Office: 310-477-2055

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The Assassination Of Leon Trotsky Reviews

Average Rating based on 7 reviews

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Los Angeles Times - Not Recommended

"....Lefcourt's frequent collaborator, Terri Hanauer, helms the proceedings, but there's not a lot she can do. The performers, many of them seasoned practitioners with sterling credits, try their best to compensate for their material, but one suspects they are in for a long slog through a thankless run."

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- F. Kathleen Foley

LA Weekly - Not Recommended

"...Where Stoppard's intellectual virtuosity and comic ingenuity are always in perfect sync, however, in director Terri Hanauer's otherwise polished staging (on Joel Daavid's playful hacienda set), Lefcourt's clever ideas rarely connect with their intended laughs."

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- Bill Raden

Santa Monica Mirror - Not Recommended

"...With nothing much to go on, the actors then take over the play and begin to improvise. Some of it is funny and the improvised soliloquies are recognizable from the plays from which they are hijacked, but the problem with this conceit is that the hijacked speeches have very little to do with the original play in progress. It's a play within a play that does nothing to advance or elucidate the "Assassination" play."

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- Cynthia Citron

StageHappenings.com - Recommended

"....Well, playwright Peter Lefcourt dreamed up an idea that turns out to be one of the funniest comedies I've seen in a long time."

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- Carol Kaufman Segal

ArtsInLA - Not Recommended

"...Lefcourt's play fails to produce the most basic element of farce: humor. Despite the imaginative, fluid staging of helmer Terri Hanauer and the yeoman efforts of a talented ensemble, the work sinks under the weighty excess of the script."

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- Julio Martinez

Frontiers - Recommended

".....If Caryl Churchill and Larry Shue had a love child, and that love child wrote a play about the theater, it would look something like The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: A Comedy, Peter Lefcourt's smart, silly, surprising and outrageously entertaining play receiving a top-notch world premiere at the Odyssey."

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- Christopher Cappiello

Total Theater - Recommended

"...All of the humor is broad, bawdy and cartoonish, but fast and funny nonetheless. Farce always presents a tough theatrical challenge, but the playwright and his cast manage to handle it well, helped greatly by the deft work of director Terri Hanauer. Joel Daavid's sumptuous hacienda set is another big plus."

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- Willard Manus

The Assassination Of Leon Trotsky at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble