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Reviews: 'Farragut North,' 'Mindgame'

Time Out New York

Review: Mindgame
Perhaps the looniest stage failure of the year, this is dinner theater served with an emetic.

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Back Stage

Mindgame reviewed by David Sheward
The trouble is with Mindgame, Anthony Horowitz's mindless thriller, is that twist is fairly obvious five minutes after the show starts. The second act is just as easy to predict.

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New York Times

Journalist in Asylum Lacks Exit Strategy
With “Mindgame,” Ken Russell, the British film director, and Keith Carradine, the economical movie actor, attempt to resuscitate a moribund stage genre, the psychological thriller.

New York Post

'Mindgame' doesn't matter
Ken Russell has made many a loopy film in his day - "Liszto mania" and "Lair of the White Worm," among many others...

Associated Press

An Excess of Talk Does in the Actors in 'Mindgame'
''Mindgame,'' Anthony Horowitz's English mystery thriller, is death by exposition. And the weapon of choice is talk, talk, talk -- and more talk.

Variety

Review: Mindgame
...But more imagination has gone into the tricky set than into the plot, and despite some stabs at realistic horror, helmer Ken Russell can't quite stop himself from tipping the whole thing into farce.

TheaterMania

Review: Mindgame
Ken Russell's staging of this mediocre thriller is often more silly than scary.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: Mindgame
You only need to know one thing before seeing Anthony Horowitz’s thriller Mindgame at the Soho Playhouse: Don’t blink. . . .

nytheatre.com

Review: Mindgame