Eleemosynary

ensemble theatre · kas productions · United States of America

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Review by SAVANNAH DOOLEY

June 21, 2015
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tagged as: elegant · witty · tender · complicated

My overall impression

This show about three generations of highly intelligent, relentlessly ambitious women is luminous. A tight, simply but elegantly staged production that needs almost no set. I’d never read Lee Blessing’s work before— the script is beautifully written. I was expecting a heavy family drama, which in a way, this is— but I was surprised to find it full of hilarious moments as well. The actors live up to the material, each bringing her own unique style. You forget you’re watching three women of roughly the same age as they fully inhabit their roles of brightly eccentric grandmother, quietly struggling mother and precocious, wounded daughter. See this, y’all.

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