Review – Brooklyn 45

The combination of the single room setting and dreadful dialogue make this production reek of a sophomore-level playwriting assignment. I was intrigued by the notion of a seance dredging up supernatural fallout from war crimes, but the premise is swiftly buried under a mountain of ill-conceived character motivations and a relentless stream of bickering. The inattention to detail is also nettlesome. For example, one of the characters committed an atrocity in Berlin during the war, but the US Army didn’t enter that city until after the war in Europe ended. The incident could easily have been located somewhere else in Germany, which showcases the sloppy approach to storytelling here. And though the cast is populated with some semi-familiar faces, almost all the actors are too old to have recently done military service. Maybe if it had been Brooklyn 65 instead? See if desperate