What I liked
Strong, compelling performances all around from the four actors portraying both the youthful and mature versions of the two brothers along with well-executed direction making the most of the theatrical, time-shifting and dream-like elements in the script necessary to convey the mood, point and effectiveness of using memory as a device. The naked, detailed intimacy of Kearns’ storytelling and the coziness of the small theater make you feel that you are more confessor and confidant to these characters’ issues and dilemmas as opposed to just a passive audience member.
What I didn't like
Needs more people in the seats!
My overall impression
Recommend!! An intensely personal, emotionally raw new work by one of L.A.‘s most prolific and important playwrighting voices. Weaving together the strands of memory, perspective, dysfunction, history and choice, this story of two brothers coming to terms with themselves, their points of view, each other and their past and present takes the audience on a journey inside the unique, sometimes strange, sometimes difficult relationships and ties that bind and often are only accepted and forgiven within family. Not always easy to confront or contemplate, it will likely cause you to reflect on your own life history and the complex fabric of your own siblings’ dynamics…and isn’t that what a good drama should make you do?!
