Thursday, November 15, 2018

Usual Girls (Roundabout @ Black Box Theatre)

A colourful splash of vignettes from third grade through to early-mid adulthood (time: 1980s - 2018), interwoven with darkness all the way through - which turns out to be because, as it sets up in its opening scene, the play's major concern turns out to be toxic masculinity, which it builds upon and elaborates as it jumps through time and builds to its gut-punch final scenes. An extra layer is that the protagonist, Kyeoung, is a woman of colour - as is the older woman / version of her who is a character in her own right. Director: Ming Peiffer. It was very good.