Unbound at Hudson Theatre

Unbound

Hudson Theatre
6539 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood

It is the fall of 2011. A popular but divisive Tea Party senator wants to be the next President of the United States. A former Black Panther, after 36 years in prison, hopes to rebuild his fallen organization. And two young Occupy activists - Michael and Kate - wake up together in a hotel room, unable to remember how they got there. While piecing together clues from the previous night, they discover a controversial video recording that, if released to the public, could determine the outcome of the 2012 presidential election.

Thru - Nov 27, 2016

Saturdays: 3:00pm & 8:00pm

Sundays: 7:00pm

Price: $25-$30

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 323-856-4249

www.hudsontheatre.com

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Stage and Cinema - Recommended

"...Performances are artful and complex. The two young lovers, played by Ayad and Gardner, have great chemistry together; it's engaging how their personalities evolve from strangers having a sex date, to political cronies, to something deeper, and then something scarier. As for McFadden's marvelously brittle turn as the chillingly evil Dana, it's a powerful, wonderful turn, as is Williams' vicious but strangely honorable Ellis."

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- Paul Birchall

Stage Scene LA - Somewhat Recommended

"...A playwright might get away with unsympathetic characters in a believable, compelling situation, or sympathetic characters in a less than fascinating one. Unfortunately in Unbound, a double negative does not add up to a positive."

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- Steven Stanley

Stage Raw - Somewhat Recommended

"...The central problem is its setup, which has Kate's mother Dana (Gates McFadden) summoning Michael's friend Ellis (Ellis E. Williams) to help her cover up a terrible and damaging deed (a potential spoiler I'm bound not to reveal). She's done this despite the fact that she's personally responsible for having put this man behind bars for 36 years, and despite, as a woman of power and influence, having access to any number of FBI and Secret Service people (not boy scouts, surely) from her own checkered past. It's simply not a buyable circumstance - nor are any of the actions that follow upon it -especially those of McFadden's character, as she attempts to lure this person whom she's monstrously betrayed with promises of future largesse. By play's end the story has spiraled to the realm of the ludicrous (Again, I'm constrained by a spoiler.). Chambers, who staged the action so expertly earlier, here seems to have gone AWOL, and the performers flounder."

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- Deborah Klugman

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