What I liked
I’d be a statue if I weren’t moved by the courage and aggression with which the actresses owned their stage, and executed their roles. From the outset, they perform with the energy and confidence necessary to sway a viewer from a casual, even indifferent posture, to one of clapping and laughing and finally hoping that the ladies can keep it up, and ride out their entertaining work strong. And by the way, they do accomplish that
What I didn't like
I won’t say that there was anything that didn’t work, because the ladies actually pull off their aesthetic and intellectual objectives, without either objective diluting the effectiveness of the other.
The improvement that they might make would require more stage accoutrements so that their costuming and role changes and spatial/temporal shifts and movements could occur more subtly.
But allow me to stress that this pair of actresses is so strong in delivery of their roles, that they get away with the sparse staging accommodations, and completely nail this performance
My overall impression
The show itself is landmark in import, as it deals with a white-hot social issue that does not submit to objective, decisive judgment (boy, I hate using the “j” word, esp. after seeing the play). Here we have the most personal, subjective of experiences, that is, pregnancy, which the powers-that-be insist on adjudicating and controlling from external places in intrusive ways. In dealing with this topic, our two artists are authentic, hilarious, and moving in their acting out of their multiple (and diverse) roles. With limited props, they execute a marvelous delivery of their theme. And to top it off, they are brilliant actresses, both cognitively and aesthetically gifted, and completely expressive of their gifts.
