‘The Minutes’ Review: New Broadway Comedy is a Cunning, Sensational Indictment of American Democracy
variety.comNaveen Kumar Some stories creep up in disguise, hiding a ghastly scowl. “The Minutes” is an astonishing feat from playwright and star Tracy Letts, not least for its brilliant finesse in orchestrating audience expectations and surprise.
To go in knowing little or nothing about the play may be the purest way to experience its dramatic cunning. (Reader, be warned.)Even so, “The Minutes” doesn’t trade in shocking secrets or revelations.
It exposes the systems of delusion that blind people to truths buried in plain sight. It’s devilishly funny until it’s not. It is thrilling and essential theater that interrogates the present by laying bare how history is written.
And it’s among the best new plays on Broadway in years. “A hundred years from now, will anyone care?” It seems like a fair question for the city council in Big Cherry, the “wet sock of a town” where a dozen elected members bat around hyperlocal minutia like stolen bicycles and a redesign of the town park.
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