Add me to the list of people who enjoyed this play a lot. I didn't have any trouble with the "big dramatic moments" like other posters as I felt that they were mostly played as quiet revelations outside of one moment that kind of serves as the "11 o'clock scene" of the show (it's a little unhinged but I think it works in the overall arc of the play). I don't normally enjoy slice of life stories, which is what a lot of this show seems to be, but these two actors really made the characters so compelling so quickly and I really enjoyed watching the development of their relationship. I also didn't really think it took that much time to kick in but honestly I found the conversation around getting a loan kind of interesting? or maybe it's just this particular conversation with the humanity that these characters bring to it.
I thought both the lighting and sound design were excellent, though the first scene change jarred me a bit, and I didn't mind the way the set was placed, and it really spoke to me more of the overarching ideas of the play. The set change for the penultimate was really quite striking and beautiful to me, and the final scene could be seen as a bit hokey or cheesy, but I thought it added a nice bit of closure. I don't necessarily think there's any big ideas here, mostly just a series of small ones and not necessarily ones that are supposed to shift our worldview, but for me it was mostly just spending some time with these particular characters and the empathy they bring.
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I actually really appreciated the way that the title of the play was never mentioned or even touched upon in the actual play, as it felt like it really just let the play speak for itself in a more profound way, though I wonder if people of different religious leanings might feel differently (I'm agnostic)
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