I've just been reading some reviews from a few productions of Voir Dire and, I'm happy to say, they all agree with me about the play. What's fascinating is that the male character (played last night by Benjamin Clark) is, in all these reviews, positioned to be the villain of the piece by the playwright, and yet, as I said last night, he comes off as the only reasonable one in the group - not a bully (even though everyone calls him that, he's neither written nor played that way, at least in these three or four productions). They all basically feel that it's an "issue" play rather than a play that is about human beings. Also, according to these reviews, one of the characters sounds really interesting, but it certainly was not played that way at LACC - either the director or the actress apparently didn't "get" this character. They also felt the play was way too long for its own good.
But it's had a bit of popularity on the regional circuit and in colleges. It figures. As to it being a Pulitzer nominee, well, c'mon - and how many Pulitzer Prize-winning plays have not played on Broadway at all?
