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Updated October 27, 2008 - 9:38AM

Back Stage

The Fourposter reviewed by Gwen Orel
Keen Company and director Blake Lawrence were smart to latch onto Dutch playwright Jan de Hartog's 1951 sweet couple-growing-old-together play.

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Updated October 22, 2008 - 8:42AM

New York Times

Moments in a Marriage, From Youth to Middle Age
The Keen Company’s revisiting of “The Fourposter” is, like the bed of the title, charming in a sturdy sort of way.

TheaterMania

Peter Filichia's Diary: Keeping Up with the Jones' Decisions
We’ve heard it for years - if not in real life, then at least in older plays and movies: Some high-born type snootily says, “It’s so hard to get good help nowadays.” The current production of The Fourposter from the Keen Company...

nytheatre.com

Review; The Fourposter

First Night Reviews

AmericanTheaterWeb

Review - The Fourposter - How Does a Marriage Endure?

Variety

Review: The Fourposter
"The Fourposter" makes perfect sense for Keen Company. In accordance with the troupe's mission, Jan de Hartog's 1951 dramedy is both sincere and sophisticated, wittily tracking 35 years in a couple's marriage. Director Blake Lawrence, however, gets so enamored of the play's period setting she fails to tap its honesty.

TheaterMania

Review: The Fourposter
The Keen Company offers a bland revival of Jan de Hartog's Tony Award-winning two-hander about marriage.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: The Fourposter
Given all its squabbling about the little things in life, you might think The Fourposter couldn’t go big if it tried. Yet despite chronicling such impediments to connubial bliss as wedding-night jitters, potential adultery, and spirit-sapping ennui, Jan de Hartog’s charming comedy emerges by its final scene as an expansive portrait of not just an American marriage, but America itself in all its enterprising, maddening, and romantic spirit. . . .

CurtainUp

Review: The Fourposter
I've never seen less need for an intermission — let alone two-- than in this single set play