Reviews

The Great Wave by Francis Turnly

leiaslizzy's review against another edition

5.0

This play is INSANE. It's thrilling, and heartwrenching and full of twists and turns. I'm reading it for a class, but I'll almost certainly read it again. Update: okay so I just found out this play is based on real events and holy cow.

marinamc1's review against another edition

5.0

when u think u know where a play’s going and then. it Doesn’t. reading something so seemingly fictional and then finding out it acc happened has shook me sm

dreadthemad's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.25

catdad77a45's review

4.0

First off, there aren't a lot of contemporary plays in English featuring a completely Asian cast, so for that alone, the play earns plaudits. And it concerns a subject I had never heard about, but which seems all too plausible - namely that North Korea might have kidnaped Japanese citizens and taken them to the Fatherland in order to teach Japanese to spies in order to facilitate espionage operations (although the playwright claims the incidents in the play are entirely fictional). That said, however, the play is longer than necessary, often borders on melodrama, and requires a set that would seem well-nigh impossible for any but the most flush companies to render (including actual sea waves - although I suppose those could be suggested via other means).