What I liked
The use of multimedia, clever choreography/use of props for traveling through time, and wonderful back-up band fill the space, and running time of the performance, wonderfully and uniquely for a one-person-show. It was very well-produced while also feeling deeply intimate and organic. The concept is simultaneously complicated and yet cartoonishly simple, in a way that feels genuinely profound, satisfying, rejuvenating, whilst also opening a larger conversation that really continued into the adjacent bar and continues throughout my own life since seeing it.
What I didn't like
There are moments when the very strong different voices of each character she plays had some overlap, but the bleeding was minimal and I am sure that as this is performed more and more often, those moments will only become more crisp.
My overall impression
I have been singing the closing song from this show for weeks after it was over. This is a show for anyone who has experienced loss, for anyone suffering from eldest-daughter syndrome (or other “fixers” of any kind), for those who have mental illness in their families – or in themselves, for anyone who looks out into the vastly violent, terrifying future and wonders if they should even try to stick around. This was a gorgeous “introduction to self-preservation for empaths.” The moments in which Liza uses the show itself to organically process her own grief, recover right onstage in front of us, and then belt out some epic power ballad, is utterly stunning and riveting. I’ve possibly never seen a performance so honest in my life.
