What I liked
it was short.
What I didn't like
wanted to see one single female character that existed unto herself without the necessity of a man. the only woman in the show has two male obsessions – god and one of her students. the first piece seemed to only exist to subjugate the young man who played the lead, and I felt uneasy watching him be manhandled in that way. the second piece is less egregious but also felt far too preoccupied with men, their problems, and the way their women (who were treated like garbage when they were alive) abandoned them. the pieces also didn’t seem to belong together. the percussion that hammered throughout only continually reminded me that men beat the drums that we women must march to. no thanks.
My overall impression
this show is dripping with the male gaze. it’s a testosterone heavy pseudo-intellectual dive into ‘guilt’ that doesn’t seem to know how to get to the point it’s trying to make – or is it? the only female character in the show is a predator and while that might seem ‘subversive’, it does nothing but perpetuate this idea that women can’t be powerful unto themselves unless they are dangerous.
