We got free tickets to Camp Siegfried through Culture Card. I probably wouldn't have paid money to see this. It's only 90 minutes without intermission but it felt longer. It's about two teenagers at a pro-Nazi camp on Long Island in 1938. It's a love story. And that kind of obscures the whole Nazi thing. I thought it would be a lot more explicitly anti-Nazi than it was. The setting isn't really all that important to the main plot, but as an audience member it's impossible to look past. Just start with the description of the play in the playbill...it doesn't even mention the Nazi sympathies. It implicitly condones it by not explicitly condemning it. And it's pretty boring overall.
The best part by far is the set. It felt like being outside. There isn't quite a stage, it's a hill built into the theater. And there are branches hanging from the ceiling to simulate trees. There is one mesmerizing scene in which they construct a platform in the side of the hill with planks and mallets. They they use the platform in a few different ways. But later in the play the reveal another platform on the left side of the stage, which comes down like a murphy bed and acts as a pier/dock. The lighting is maybe too good that the darkness put me to sleep. I kind of dozed off after the platform scene. The seats in the theater were nice leather.
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