What I liked
The play was so good I am struggling to find words to adequately describe what I experienced. The main character was going in and out of different mind-sets: interviewer, transman in a fraught exchange with their father (the person auditioning for the role of father), transman in a fraught exchange with a recording of their biological father. While the person auditioning was always in just one mindset: that of auditioner. But this didn’t become clear to me until the very end when the auditioner exclaimed that “There are no more lines in the script.” It was at that point that the light came on and I was blown away.
What I didn't like
Nothing.
My overall impression
I was extremely impressed. The writing was composed of tangled, interrelated layers, which made grasping very fine shades of difference within those layers a requirement for understanding the performance. It wasn’t until the very end that I was able to see the whole that all the layers taken together constituted. This made the experience quite breathtaking. I was taken aback by both the quality of writing and the performance. The many layers began being applied the moment the theatre doors opened. One the characters was planted in the audience waiting room. More layers were laid down one after the other. The skill that it takes to pull something like this off makes my head shake. It was simply amazing.
