| GIRLS AND BOYS Today (Possible Spoiler) | |
| Posted by: sergius 06:02 pm EDT 06/16/18 | |
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| Beat for beat, superb, flawless even, storytelling. Mulligan commands the stage with an intensely concentrated performance that, in its last few minutes especially, is mesmerizing. It's a long story (1:45, no intermission) and it's demanding, too--Mulligan's accent is sometimes difficult to parse--but this degree of submersion into character and into a remote corner of human experience is worth the effort. GIRLS AND BOYS reminds us that narrative, and by association the theatre, has the potential to be transformative, especially where trauma is concerned. You may anticipate the play's events before they're revealed, but what's surprising here doesn't have to do with story details. Kelly's play is, rather, a shock of feeling and a kind of proof that if, as Joan Didion has it, we tell ourselves stories in order to live, we sometimes tell them not to as well. | |
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