What I liked
She does not sew it up with a pretty predictable bow but with a quiet knawing challenge to all of us. I did not know the artist when I walked in but I do now.
What I didn't like
Everything worked and smoothly.
As a suggestion her character might have worn a beautiful suit. Her character was a regional account executive. Add a coat rack to the mother’s set. Sort of a slow strip off with the clip on pearl earrings into the pocket, then the jacket, unpin the hair. Untucking the top. A slow unraveling of comformity.
My overall impression
To describe the topic of this piece of theater would not do it justice. This play is subtle, a slow obsorb, and not uncommon. In the program the artist says “I care about my story and I care about yours.” That means more to me this morning than when I read it before the play.
The story is about a deferred life , waiting for your turn and your turn never comes. It is the story for so many people, especially women of a certain age.
The way it is told is exceptional. So much craft in writing and telling went into this play. She gots inside of me as she checked my boxes.
The super efficent at work Heather, the woman inside that woman, her mother in her head, and the man ," her person".who she supported till it would be her turn, all played by the author with vunlnerability and artistry.
I got up and danced at the end of the play even though “those kind of things make me uncomfortable” because by the end of the play I wanted to embrace being uncomfortable to connect. Her story unravelsed while I watched and inside my story unraveled. Her relationship to each part of her life is slowly realized by the character.
