THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Charles Isherwood
NEW YORK---Context is not everything when it comes to our experience of theater, but it’s not nothing, either. “
The Harvest,” a new play by
Samuel D. Hunter about a group of young evangelical missionaries in Idaho, has a serious context problem. These idealistic young Christians, all in their 20s, are heading off to save souls in a place referred to only as “the Middle East.” The primary plot strand in “The Harvest” — will Josh go, or will Michaela and maybe Tom persuade him to stay? — didn’t exactly have me gnawing my fingernails in suspense. In fact, considering the horrific stories coming daily from Syria and Iraq, it came to seem pretty inconsequential. [
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| Peter Mark Kendall and Leah Karpel in “The Harvest,” by Samuel D. Hunter, at Lincoln Center Theater. Credit Julieta Cervantes for The New York Times |
