Author: Tulis McCall

I am a fan of Fishamble theatre company.  Their previous play at 59E59, Blueberry Hill, left me gobsmacked.  Maz and Bricks did not. This is a sort of romantic travelogue with a touch of politics, a touch of self-doubt, shame, and of course hope.  What it was lacking was a large dose of character and action to balance out the touches.

Lucas Hnath is out to mess with your mind.  Let me tell – it ain’t a bad deal.  My advice is accept the invitation. Hnath and director Les Waters have created something like a pas de deux. Matching pacing and movement from moment to moment.  What they have created releases what has been set to paper and lets it fly – creating a new Thin Place where there was none before.

Greater Clements has now joined the three hour club, and for no good reason other than to add new meaning to “exposition”.

In this play there is one moment where the great loss from the plague of AIDS is handed to us like a baby in swaddling clothes.  Before we know it we have wrapped our arms around the now visible wound that we thought we had left behind.