The well-written 90-minute play is the opening production of Desireé Clarke Miller's first season as Moxie artistic director
Molly Smith Metzler’s play “Cry It Out” opened at Moxie Theatre on Friday night, exactly four weeks to the day after Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster film “Barbie” amusingly satirized the unrealistic expectations placed on women by themselves, men and society.
That may not sound interesting to men or to women who haven’t experienced motherhood. But the play resonates deeply and universally because Metzler is such a naturalistic writer and her well-drawn characters are real, relatable and funny. Metzler, who has a 10-year-old daughter, is the award-winning story editor for the women-centered TV series “Orange is the New Black” and head writer for the mini-series “Maid.
The story takes place on the shared back patio for the two small cottages where central characters Jessie and Lina live. Jessie is on maternity leave from her job as a corporate attorney and is married into a wealthy Long Island family. Lina is also on maternity leave from her entry-level job as a hospital worker. Three years sober, Lina is cheery, funny and outspoken, and is now living with her boyfriend and their infant son in his alcoholic mother’s house.
Katee Drysdale is the warm heart of the play as Jessie. She fully inhabits her soft-spoken, gentle and generous character and is heartbreaking in her final scene. As Lina, Kylie Young is the fire in the play, hilariously inhabiting her character’s strong New York accent, knowing smirk, two-tone orange and platinum braids, acrylic nails and giant hoop earrings.
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