My overall impression
Rachel Germaine offers an exuberant, high-energy glimpse into her Long Island upbringing, suffering under the hands of tyrannical brothers and her journey toward acceptance. Told with humor and razzle-dazzle, what could simply be an anti-bullying, coping with addiction or investigation into female coming-of-age braids all three threads in a common story informed by all these aspects. The result is an entertaining one-and-some-person show.
I would have appreciated the clarity that comes from dedication to one of these threads, perhaps going deeper into the complicated interplay between budding sexual identity and a childhood spent marginalized, but that’s not quite germane to Germaine. Come for the story of a strong woman who walked her own road (with occasionally dead legs) and followed her dreams, finding the love of her family along the way to adulthood.
