What I liked
What moved me most about this show, outside of certain shocking moments and images, was seeing it pass through Rain’s performance, her entire being, on its way to the audience. This is a very deeply felt performance.
What I didn't like
The show is constructed more or less as a journey into the past, and into whiteness, but that sense of a plunge into an unknown world makes the ending a bit hard to find, even if it ultimately makes sense.
My overall impression
This is a show of surprising depths — even the writer/performer/singer Rain Perry admits that her first version of this story, her record of the same name, didn’t prepare her for what she would discover about her family, herself, and her inheritance of whiteness in the course of diving into the creation of this show, which includes live music as well as Rain’s journey.
