What I liked
Melissa Center delivers an emotionally raw performance as a writer who has been hurt in her career and love by the times and the way women are treated. It is interesting to see this piece written well before the Me Too era play out now n the Me Too era. It shows how little has changed in the struggle for gender equality in business and personal relationships. The leading man, Jake Ferree is perfect in the role as a young, brash, perhaps overconfident bro who wants to be better and considered by his art not his past. Super relateable, and fantastic direction of the uber-natural dialogue.
What I didn't like
I felt like the play really did super. If I had to judge, as a music snob, I felt some better choices could have been made in between scenes, but that really didn’t take me out of it. I did not love the first act entryway being in the audience only because there were two doors on stage and halfway through the play one of them became an entryway, making the in-audience entryway superfluous and maybe a little on the nose direction of like “it’s time to pay attention now” But that’s only because this website mad eme fill out all three boxes so now I am trying to be nitpicky :-)
My overall impression
Searingly honest work by the two actors sell this play about the pros and cons of being vulnerable with those you don’t know, whether it be in the arts or relationships. A moving play that doesn’t feel like the two hour run time.
