The storyline is hardly original, but it does provide the opportunity for Rebeck to unleash wickedly scathing observations about the sort of self-obsessed show business types who pursue their own interests no matter who it hurts.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
In adapting her recent play The Scene, Theresa Rebeck can't find a consistent tone for her material or players.
An intermittently interesting but fatally clichéd comedy of personal and professional suicide.
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Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Charlie is a stereotype who doesn't know it--basically your typical broke dude in a near midlife crisis who thinks he's the first to have his dull problems.