| A collaboration of four major theaters has produced this huge production. 14 actors, an enormous set, and a 2 hour and 45 minute playtime. Author Harris has great moments, fantastic lines, and 2 really wonderful characters. But there are at least two tropes that don't bring any discovery and feel pedantic and expositional. What could have been an incredible 90 minute play about two women in an emblematic cul de sac dealing with loss, desire, and the ways Black women survive and don't- it ends ups inflated and overblown that the work ends up with a very muddy message: War Is Bad. But not even that, because of the last minute revelation that two major characters died differently than imagined- and this conclusion further confuses the drive of the play. More is not better. |
