Isolation is on everyone’s mind.
, a consideration of the dynamics of community—all tinged by a few pandemic years spent with little human interaction. A stage is a good space to conjure togetherness, and so is an audience. That can be a straightforwardly joyful process, if, say, you’re watching a comedy that ends with a wedding celebration, or a more complex one if it all ends in tragedy.
Harper describes all this to us while standing on a set, designed by Marsha Ginsberg, that’s a shrunken-down replica of a northeastern small-town square. You’ll think of, as you inevitably must when you see the steeple of a meeting house onstage, and director Knud Adams heightens the sense of dislocation by having a musician at the side of the stage ring a bell during pauses in Kenneth’s speeches and between scenes, as if he’s being jarred awake by the demands of other people.
You can get all that from interacting with real people in person, but Booth doesn’t discount that there’s a depth to Kenneth and Bert’s dynamic too, even if it’s imaginary. You feel for him whenever he worries about whether Bert will show up to get mai tais again.
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