My overall impression
Masterful storytelling, skillful acting, all set around the ways we crash into one another emotionally – genitals first.
Sleeping Around is a slice of modern life that showcases the stories that 10 characters tell themselves and others. I say “stories” because they’re not lies, neither are they truths. They’re the things we tell ourselves that allow us to sleep at night feeling that we are “good people”. That we have been honest, that we have been patient, that we have been forgiving, that we have been loving. And perhaps we have. Or not.
It’s impossible to watch this show without seeing something, or more likely someone, we recognize. This is some of the best emotional work I’ve seen done onstage in a long time. In the space of 10 minutes, usually less, these actors get RAW.
My only criticism of this production is that it’s on the heteronormative/monochromatic side. As one of the characters says – this is 2015. And perhaps more importantly this is Fringe. We should be reflecting the audiences we want to attract.
