Good for Otto

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Good for Otto
Written by David Rabe
Date premiered2015
Original languageEnglish
Genre Drama
SettingA rural mental health center

Good for Otto is an American play by David Rabe. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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Plot

Dr. Michaels and fellow counselor Evangeline counsel six patients at a rural mental health center.

Critical reception

The Guardian awarded the play three stars out of five, calling it "Intimately staged yet strangely old-fashioned." [6]

The Hollywood Reporter said in a review, "This shapeless play loses rather than gathers steam, ultimately seeming more like a docudrama patchwork with messy stitching than a satisfying, fully realized theatrical work." [7]

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References

  1. "The New Group". Archived from the original on 2018-06-18. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  2. Playbill
  3. New York Observer
  4. The New York Times
  5. The New York Times
  6. 1 2 The Guardian
  7. 1 2 Rooney, David (March 8, 2018). "'Good for Otto': Theater Review". The Hollywood Reporter .