Marc Miller takes a look at Regretfully, So the Birds Are at Playwrights Horizons:
The last time Playwrights Horizons aimed to just make us laugh and not think too hard was The Thanksgiving Play. That turned out well. Playwrights is back in comedic mode with Regretfully, So the Birds Are by Julia Izumi, described as a "tragicomedy" but leaning more heavily on the second half of that. Odd title, isn't it? It's a line late in the play and it makes minimal sense even in context. But Regretfully, So the Birds Are is quite the apt moniker for this wackadoodle work. It's funny, it's ambiguous, and it trails off to nowhere. |
