| A great cast! The author's strengths are in-the-moment one on one conversations, some of which are really inspired and deep. She is not good at the larger story, which is very protracted- and many tropes are dropped. A number of introduced elements: a gun, a pregnancy, an older lesbian character just go no where. While she was trying to write a realist great play, it fails because in the end everyone turns out to do the right thing and she can't bring herself to make them flawed and real. At intermission you think you know where the play is going, but even that doesn't land. It just turns to positive images. The direction by Santiago-Hudson is wonderful on actorly terms but very clunky scene transitions. The video projections are repetitive and don't enhance the story telling. All that said, the audience burst into applause constantly after monologues or scenes in which people do the right thing. Rashad is great but hard to hear. Lots of strengths but not a great work. |
