| Lobby Hero | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Kenneth Lonergan |
| Characters | Jeff William Dawn Bill |
| Date premiered | 13 March 2001 |
| Place premiered | Playwrights Horizons, New York City |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Drama |
| Setting | lobby of a middle-income high-rise apartment building in Manhattan, and the street outside |
Lobby Hero is a play by Kenneth Lonergan.
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Lobby Hero was first performed at the Playwrights Horizons, on March 13, 2001. The cast was as follows:
The UK Première was staged at the Donmar Warehouse between April 4 (opening April 10) and May 4, 2002. The cast was as follows:
This production transferred to the New Ambassadors Theatre from June 26 (opening July 1) to August 10, 2002.
The show follows a doorman in his late twenties, his strict supervisor, and an overbearing cop and his rookie female partner. The show is set in a foyer of a middle-income Manhattan apartment building in the middle of the night.[1]
Toby Young said in a review in The Spectator, "Lobby Hero is a fantastic play but I'd be hard pushed to say why. You can tell it's good because, within about five minutes, any sense you have of being a member of the audience, sitting down and watching a group of actors perform on stage, has vanished.... In what amounts to an out-of-body experience, you're totally absorbed in what's going on...Lonergan is particularly good, both here and in This Is Our Youth, at showing how good intentions can be undermined by unconscious desires. Few of his characters are capable of resisting their own malignant impulses."[2]