'The Humans' doesn't just open up a Tony-winning play — it turns this Thanksgiving-set drama into its own horror movie about the monster we call 'family.' Our review
is the sister; and June Squibb is the grandmother in the throes of dementia — and let them speak his acid-tongued dialogue, it’d still be a testament to what a rewarding yet devastating drama it is. Every one of the performances is, to say the least, an example of what talented actors can bring to a piece of character-driven tragedy; there’s not a single weak link in this chain, while the collective chemistry suggests an instant history of affection, conflict, and shared cringing.
Instead, Karam decided not just to open up his play but to employ an extreme, expressionistic, arthouse-cinema vocabulary in order to bring it to the screen. Shadows and negative space are everywhere, occasionally interrupted or complemented by geometric patterns of light. Frames-within-frames-within-frames shots abound. Compositions that place the ensemble in various areas of the foreground and background are cunning enough to make Ingmar Bergman envious.
The basic narrative — a dinner, much sniping, some secrets, sheer anarchy released upon a sparsely furnished dining room — and much of the dialogue from the play has been imported, but this iteration ofis, in so many ways, its own rough beast slouching toward post-turkey dessert. Onstage, you could see and hear the influence of Chekhov, O’Neill, and a half-dozen other scribes who’ve dived headfirst into the dangerous waters of family dynamics.
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