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Review - Prayer for My Enemy - The Effects of War, Rage, Love, Dysfunction

New York Times

The Silence and the Fury Within Six American Lives
Anger is in the American bloodstream in “Prayer for My Enemy,” the provocative, confused and confusing new play by Craig Lucas.

New York Daily News

'Prayer for my Enemy' is unfocused
Not one, but two, tailgating incidents drive Craig Lucas' "Prayer for My Enemy," an unfocused play about a troubled family - is there any other kind?

amNY New York City Theater

Theater Review of Prayer for My Enemy
About halfway through Craig Lucas’ new drama “Prayer for My Enemy" at Playwrights Horizons, we suddenly made the following quick prayer: “Please end this tortuous show as soon as humanly possible.” Unfortunately for us, the 100-minute intermission-less play continued to its full conclusion.

Newsday

'Prayer for My Enemy'
Few playwrights pull us down life's rabbit holes with the dark yet altogether engaging force of Craig Lucas.

New York Post

Message lost amid the mess
To say a play is too ambitious seems churlish, but "Prayer for My Enemy" fairly begs the criticism. This drama of family...

Hartford Courant

"Prayer For My Enemy" Works On Several Levels

Associated Press

A family struggles to connect with each other
Craig Lucas'"Prayer for My Enemy" is a fractured play about a fractured family, a jagged piece of uneasy domestic drama ...

Variety

Review: Prayer for My Enemy
The folks onstage in Craig Lucas' "Prayer for My Enemy" are all struggling to make sense of themselves and their roles in a mystifying universe. The play touches on relationships, family, sexuality, addictions, war, resentment and forgiveness, nature and technology ... Despite Bartlett Sher's customarily classy staging and a topnotch cast, most audiences will find themselves as unmoored as the characters.

Back Stage

Prayer for My Enemy reviewed by David Sheward
Here we go with yet another dysfunctional-family drama. When times are tough, the theatre seems to fall back on this reliable genre. Hard on the heels of August: Osage County and Dividing the Estate comes Craig Lucas' Prayer for My Enemy

TheaterMania

Review: Prayer for My Enemy
Craig Lucas' thoughtful and engaging new play examines the damage we are capable of doing to one another, as well as our capacity for forgiveness.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: Prayer for My Enemy
Atoms colliding, entropy swirling, galaxies expanding - it's not a friendly universe for anyone caught in the eddies of pan-dimensional randomness. The six characters in Craig Lucas’s loosely engrossing new play Prayer for My Enemy, which just opened at Playwrights Horizons, learn this the hard way. They’re all unwitting victims of that most unfortunate of natural forces: blind chance. . . .

nytheatre.com

Review: Prayer for My Enemy

CurtainUp

Review: Prayer For My Enemy
Craig Lucas, takes on the suburban American family and the effect of the Vietnam and Iraq wars on their innate dysfunctional tendencies. . .