Now You See Me

Claire Has A Significant Relationship With Her Television: She Talks And It Answers Her. Diagnosed With Terminal Cancer She Auditions To Participate In A Reality Tv Show So She Can Fight Her “Final Battle” In Front Of Millions Of Viewers.“A Dark Comedy With Disturbing Insights … Funny And Provocative.” —The News & Observer (Raleigh Nc)“The Technology Of Vanity Is Developing So Quickly That Now You See Me The New Play By Neal Bell Is Almost A Period Piece Already. The Play Imagines What Would Happen If A Terminal Cancer Patient Was The Star Of A Reality T V Show That Would Chronicle Her Own Decay And Death … The Play … [Is] Crammed With Intriguing Ideas Dramatic And Otherwise … Such As The Suggestion That Watching People Die Is A Kind Of Pornography. Among The Liveliest Inventions Is Bell’S Plainly Deliberate Use Of Stock Television-Show Dialogue For His Characters Echoed Here And There By Actual T V Programs Seen In Fragments On One Of Two Onstage Screens. Now You See Me Comes On Like A Sitcom — It Very Nearly Is A Sitcom A Critique Of The Thing By Nearly Being It—And Implicitly Asks Us Whether Reality Shows Aren’T Actually Sitcoms Themselves A Cheapening Of Everyone Involved Including The Viewer.” —Adam Sobsey Indy Week