Review: "The Goo" Mesmerizes; Oozes Anxiety; Drips Invective
The Goo Written by K. Rose Dallimore Presented by New Relic Theatre at The Chain Theatre 312 W 36th St. 4th floor, Manhattan, NYC September 18-28, 2025 The cast of The Goo . Photo by Noah Simon Jampol Friendships fray and ontology is implicated under the innocuous enough auspices of six friends meeting for an annual Prospect Park picnic-cum-reunion in in K. Rose Dallimore’s brilliant original work The Goo . Inspired by The Importance of Being Earnest , Dallimore’s 90-minute, 2-act play is as much Rod Serling as Oscar Wilde. The Goo is fearless, unrelenting, disquieting, and damn funny. No ideology or identity is given quarter as Dallimore deftly skewers even our most sacred social conventions. There is mastery here, almost a sleight of hand: just when thematics and narrative stability feel most secure, and the audience most self-satisfied, the ground (or the picnic blanket in this case) gives way. No narratological or ideological creature comforts sustain once things get surreal, onc...