What I liked
Writing, directing, acting, design, and the overalls.
What I didn't like
The seat cushions move around too much on my butt.
My overall impression
Gregory Nussen’s QFWFQ takes the trappings of a one person show and then expands, exploits, and explodes it into something wholly unique, and deeply satisfying. Their premise is an examination of the format itself, and the artifice, tropes, and audience expectations that come with it. Nussen’s script seems to be asking, time and again, what is story, and ultimately, whose is it to tell? In one particularly powerful sequence, the mere fact of their American Jewishness and all of the expectations that go along with it is called into question, and how exactly those stories get passed on, like family secrets, in the guise of nostalgia. The existential questions are heavy ones, but in Nussen’s capable hands, are rendered in carefully exquisite, ontologically hysterical set pieces. To be clear, while this all may send like a heavy night at the theatre, it is anything but. An agile, gifted performer who radiates warmth and earnestness, Nussen is both a gifted writer and terrific performer. It is an absolutely wonderful, unpronounceable experience.
