'Passage, written by Christopher Chen and directed by Kaiser Ahmed, succeeds in eluding emotional investment because of its desire to present abstract universality.' | IreneCHsiao
stands in a flat line on a stage dappled with lights and fractured diagonally from floor to far wall. They introduce themselves by details plausible enough to be true: their names, which match the actors’ names in the program, as well as how they got there—CTA or car, from the south side, Rogers Park, Lakeview, Lincoln Park—and where their ancestors are from: Mexico, Taiwan, Nigeria. This is the last time that any of these identifying marks are available or made anything of.
That’s the story, that’s the setting, and learning the characters of Countries X and Y is done via dialogues, a Socratic method for the elucidation of ideal Platonic nations, which mostly occur seated on the colorless rectangular prisms placed and sometimes moved about the stage.
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