The new musical “The Bedwetter,” based on Sarah Silverman’s 2010 memoir, deals both with adults’ failures and with kids’ inhumanity to kids. “It’s also goofy, sweet, and hopeful,” alex_lily writes.
During intermission at a recent Saturday matinée of “The Bedwetter” , I stepped outside to warm myself in the spring sunshine and was joined by a mother with two kids, a girl on the cusp of adolescence and her younger brother. It tickled me to see them there.
Oops. Sarah’s F-bomb earns a chastisement from her gruff hard-ass of a teacher, Mrs. Dembo , but Sarah didn’t mean to be rebellious or rude; she just forgot that bad words are for “at” use only. Sarah’s dad, Donald , handsome and hirsute, with a thick schmear of a Boston accent, likes to share a new dirty joke with his kids every day; his mother, Sarah’s Nana , says things like “easy peezy, titty squeezy” between sips of her serial Manhattans, which the adoring Sarah eagerly mixes for her.
Death is an abstraction to most kids, especially to one who’s this defiantly optimistic about life. Nothing seems to get Sarah down: not her beautiful older sister, Laura , who sees Sarah as an annoying obstacle in her quest for popularity, and not the clique of mean girls in her class, who wear white tights and Mary Janes, like Samantha, the prissiest American Girl doll, and regard her as a total weirdo. Sarah knows exactly how to defuse their contempt.
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