Beyond its uneven pacing and contrived outcome, the play never cares about any of the characters.
The eight plays had three different directors, which probably explains the uneven pacing in some of them.
With its uneven pacing and intermittent narration, it suggests a project completed in a haze of secondhand pot smoke.
More blame belongs to the director, Sharon Rosen, whose uneven pacing and tonal choices are awkward at best (2 10).
This pair, together with Liz Santoro and an often-solo Ms. Kim, dominate most of the 65-minute piece, which sometimes loses momentum through uneven pacing.
But even a farce requires more than stereotypes, and beyond its uneven pacing and contrived outcome, the play never truly cares about any of its characters (1 30).
But more of the blame belongs to the director, Sharon Rosen, whose uneven pacing and tonal choices are awkward at best.
But if "Escape" doesn't pull off light fare very well, it fails completely with the darker stuff, partly thanks to creaky direction and uneven pacing from Gaye Taylor Upchurch.
There is uneven pacing: a few minutes take several pages to pass and include irrelevant details about what people ate at the previous meal and how the furniture is arranged, while the 20 years of intercontinental backstory that follows is condensed into a confusing paragraph.
A second quibble in an otherwise crowd-pleasing effort: director Diane Paulus' uneven pacing.
Entertainment Weekly in their review said that "uneven pacing and tone mar an intriguing cautionary tale.
