NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW:
“Sometimes, in one of theater’s more undervalued romantic story lines, an actor meets a set and — flash! — chemistry happens. The opening image of Christopher Walken in Martin McDonagh’s “Behanding in Spokane” is such a perfect, demented marriage of character and environment that you can’t help grinning like a fool.”
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ASSOCIATED PRESS REVIEW:
“If you are going to put creepy – and more than a little crazy – on stage, Christopher Walken is your main man. The actor is the spark plug who jump-starts “A Behanding in Spokane,” Martin McDonagh’s slight slice of macabre double-dealing that opened Thursday at Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.”
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NEW YORK POST REVIEW:
“Christopher Walken has an eccentric charisma, his hangdog, sorrowful demeanor spiked with a twisted kind of charm. The mix is a perfect fit for Martin McDonagh’s particular brand of macabre comedy. That Walken is the main attraction of the playwright’s new “A Behanding in Spokane” is obvious — the other night, the audience erupted into guffaws every time the star opened his mouth. But the performance is more subtle than this reflexive response indicates: There’s a hauntingly off-kilter poetry to Walken. It almost distracts you from how contrived McDonagh’s writing is. ”
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VARIETY REVIEW:
“If you’re looking to fill the role of an A-grade “cracker motherfucker,” to use the parlance of Martin McDonagh, then Christopher Walken is your go-to guy. Imagine the actor’s hidden-wristwatch tale from “Pulp Fiction” bulked up into a freestanding narrative and you have an approximate idea of “A Behanding in Spokane,” a piece of virtuoso storytelling fashioned out of a slim anecdote. There’s no broader theme, no veiled subtext and no underlying allegory. The playwright makes no pretense of doing anything beyond spinning a good yarn. Entertaining as it is, however, the black comedy remains insubstantial. ”
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USA TODAY REVIEW:
“The ferociously gifted Anglo-Irish writer Martin McDonagh has cited American authors and filmmakers from Flannery O’Connor to Martin Scorsese as influences. So you might expect these artists to inform A Behanding in Spokane (**½ out of four), his first play set in the USA.”
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WALL STREET JOURNAL REVIEW:
“When blood is shed in a Martin McDonagh play, the audience always laughs—and usually gasps. Mr. McDonagh is partial to comic violence, and in “A Behanding in Spokane” he lets it rip. I mustn’t be too specific, this being a play full of grisly surprises, but there’s one thing about which I can be absolutely precise: “A Behanding in Spokane” is the funniest new play to open in New York since I started writing this column.”
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HOLLYWOOD REPORTER REVIEW:
“Bottom Line: A brilliant cast elevates this profane shaggy-dog comedy to wildly entertaining proportions.”
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