THEATER - "Acts of Mercy"

Acts of Mercy is about an abusive father at his deathbed who pleads for love from his emotionally stunted and disturbed children. Though billed as a play about reconciliation, nothing from the plot is resolved or clarified, and is instead just a simple exercise in the endless frustrations of humanity. Playwright Michael John Garcés’s scenes are equally endless, not to mention boring, and because of the poorly-imitated (and worse-acted) Mamet-speak, hard to follow and even harder to care about.

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