What I liked
This is a brave excavation into what makes us who we are in the present and how we can escape or not succumb. Olga is fearless on stage. The agile direction picks up where the writing left off. Between the two, the audience is taken in and taken care of.
What I didn't like
Perhaps a break of the 4th wall at a critical time could be explored. There were moments when the audience felt complicit and had we been brought in directly, something unexpected and wonderful might happen.
My overall impression
Audible and visual precision are the tools that make this poem in motion work. With the same ease with which the writer/performer crosses time and space, we, the audience, get on the surfboard of her memory. Past and present are in constant and sometimes accusatory dialogue; the present the result of a past that did not know better.
