My Review of The Disciple is Up

My Full review of The Disciple is up (here). It is a show about Ayn Rand and her lover Nathaniel Branden. I liked it a lot.

The Disciple is a Study in Contradictions

The new, live presentation of The Disciple by the Thirdwing theatre company premiered at The Wild Project and told a riveting tale. 

On a very simple level, it is the story of Ayn Rand told through the eyes of her protégé and future best-selling author, Nathaniel Branden. But you can’t summarize the story that simply. The Disciple is many things: a tragic love story, a coming of age story, the story of self-deception, and an argument both for and against Ayn Rand’s “Objective Consciences”. That the play succeeds on all counts is a tribute to writer / director Rachel Carey and cast of Maja Wampuzyc and Cameron Darwin Bossert 

Nathaniel Branden begins the story, and marks the chapters in it, at the foot of the stage, lecturing to a group about his latest self-help book. The play echoes the format of his book “The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem”. Early on, he explains that his theory of Objective Consciences comes from his studying under Ayn Rand.

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I will also say that this was expanded from a previous short. Not only did review the short, but I was quoted in the poster (it was a small piece by different female authors about women).

That's me. I am Reviews Off-Broadway (on the digital version).