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If you, too, were a high school theater kid, you know that the real tears, bloodshed and gut-wrenching drama doesn’t happen on the stage. With lines like, “You know what they say: Some parts are big, and some parts are small, but actors have to act them,” Boomerang Theatre Company’s. Boomerang Theatre Company produces indie theater in New York City, and this month marks the first-ever production of Femia’s new play.
I appreciated the theme of female friendship, as Britt and Ellie become and stay friends with Amber, even as all three begin to fall in love with each other. At first, when Britt and Ellie talk about their mutual hatred of cheerleaders, I was worried that the play would fall into the trope of nice geeks versus blond, bitchy cheerleaders that ends up being sexist even while it tries to advocate for the underdogs in the unpopular crowd.
Director Scott Ebersold said the play explores themes of young people dealing with complicated questions about sexuality and gender, but “does so with joy,” and “while the play has moments that might break your heart, joy is never out of reach.”also doesn’t take itself too seriously, showing the silliness of high school theater and the shenanigans the characters get up to like writing innuendos on styrofoam gravestones for the Halloween dance.
Amber’s line, “We can’t have a play without girls playing guys unless we did a play with all women characters … but do those even exist?” got quite a few telling laughs from the audience. School theater gives girls a place where they can be loud and take up space.
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