This piece very effectively imitates the effect of sitting in a TV control room for hours on end -- but to tell you the truth, there aren't many points in my day when I particularly want to feel that effect for thirteen minutes, although I realize that's the point. The control room guy has some mildly entertaining things to say. The production is smooth, but if this is half of the original piece, I think it could have been halved again, without losing that great purgatorial effect. Still, the piece in its current form would fit nicely in a certain kind of show with a certain kind of meandering pace.
Review of The Control Room
Noah Miller
Posted on October 31, 2003 at 09:41 AM
This piece very effectively imitates the effect of sitting in a TV control room for hours on end -- but to tell you the truth, there aren't many points in my day when I particularly want to feel that effect for thirteen minutes, although I realize that's the point. The control room guy has some mildly entertaining things to say. The production is smooth, but if this is half of the original piece, I think it could have been halved again, without losing that great purgatorial effect. Still, the piece in its current form would fit nicely in a certain kind of show with a certain kind of meandering pace.