"Page is so convincing, and the staging of his soon-to-be accomplices with their backs to us, completely anonymized, so ingenuous, that 'Archduke' briefly reaches a dizzying marriage of form and content."
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"There is no denying that Archduke is fun, but it is thin. Even with Page, one of the greatest actors of our time, on stage, Tresnjak’s production is more mirage than homage."
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"A great part of what gives Archduke its considerable theatrical oomph is, while heading straight for the tragedy, just how funny it is."
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"if you’re going to write a comedy set in the past that points mockingly to the present, it ought to be really funny...Archduke never quite reaches those gasping, wheezing heights of hilarity, settling into a gentle absurdity"
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A visit to Joseph's capacious imagination is well worth it
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"Archduke is a why of a play; still, there are good scenes."
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"Tresnjak’s staging rolls it all out smoothly, but the play merely ends and really never resonates."
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Making the young men caught up in the plot country bumpkins requires a much broader acting and writing style than "Archduke" offers.
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