Les Waters’s staging of this play — Smith’s Off Broadway debut — for Atlantic Theater Company is marvelously realized, as much, at least, as Smith’s often maddening script allows.
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Grief Camp offers a strikingly unsentimental and thoughtful panorama of young people who refuse to let grief hold them back from living.
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"the play's narrative development is mostly in its title and that unsubtle location choice"
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Rather than using a straightforward plot, Smith presents a mosaic.
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Even the play’s brief 100-minute runtime can’t prevent the onset of ennui.
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Grief Camp, like the campers it depicts, is stuck in an inchoate space where it has not yet come to terms with all its issues.
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The ensemble engagingly portrays complex characters about to move on with their lives but not yet ready to face the world.
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