Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia @ GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE

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Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix

Rising playwright Beth Hyland’s “Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia,” having its world premiere at Geffen Playhouse, is just what you’d want in a new play — ambitious and compelling in a well staged and performed production. Bringing to life poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes as they affect a current writer and her husband, the play challenges expectations in a rollercoaster ride of ghostly interactions. Read more…

Jonas Schwartz-Owen – Theatermania

Writing a narrative with parallel stories is tricky because both sides need to be equally compelling. In Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia, having its world premiere at Geffen Playhouse, author Beth Hyland juxtaposes Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes’s turbulent relationship with a modern couple also struggling when both are novelists with imbalanced successes. The play’s issue is that despite the toxicity between them, Plath and Hughes are more compellingly written than the 21st century Theo and Sally. Read more…

Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA

In a small but serviceable apartment in the Beacon Hill section of Boston once occupied by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, a young married couple deal with the sometimes agonizing prospect of being artists—in their case, as writers on a rollercoaster ride between fragile creativity and recognized literary achievement. Read more…