Review: This galvanizing new play tries to humanize lives lived behind bars
Writer-performer Liza Jessie Peterson in “The Peculiar Patriot,” at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. By Nelson Pressley Nelson Pressley Theater critic Email Bio Follow Theater critic April 8 at 2:16 PM Liza Jessie Peterson wants to alter your thinking about U.S. prisons, but her solo show, “The Peculiar Patriot” only briefly spins all the way up into fact-driven agitprop.
Though it raises its fist in resistance often enough, “The Peculiar Patriot” — directed with sleek style by Talvin Wilks — is largely a charm offensive. Sitting at a plain table and speaking directly to us , Peterson is dressed in an outfit of jeans, gold sneakers and Army surplus jacket designed by Latoya Murray-Berry.
Complicated lives caught in complex systems: Liza Jessie Peterson in “The Peculiar Patriot” at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. It bristles with life, though, when Peterson pivots from the invitingly personal to the explicitly political. The facts barked by the activist boyfriend — played by Peterson with considerable command — have the outlines of an exposé attacking the ethics and profit motives of privately run prisons.
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