Just caught this and while i don't explicitly disagree with the first couple of posters, I don't come down as negatively overall. i found it overall fairly middling, not necessarily a waste of time, but I wouldn't recommend going out of your way to see it if you have limited show slots. i thought the opening and closing scenes with Jonathan and Denise were the most interesting but the rest of the characters never really established themselves as people I was interested in, with the exception of Anna (played by Gabby Beans), and by virtue of proximity, her sister Reggie. if anything, this really showed me how much of an engaging actress I found Gabby Beans to be, especially after Skin of Our Teeth.
The thing with this play though, is that nothing happens, which can be okay in some plays, but the characters just aren't interesting enough for me to care about what happens to them, and though on paper the stakes seem high, it never actually feels that way. There always seemed to be a bit of a disconnect between the amount of suspense the characters should be feeling and the suspense the audience actually felt, and the small moments of personal tragedy never felt that tragic to me. it was strange too, because I felt that the rest of the audience kept laughing in places I didn't think were particularly funny while I would laugh at places very few others did so I don't know if the disconnect was just there for me.
i do think Patrice Johnson Chevannes did an excellent job as Denise--she seemed calm and self-assured and everything I would want in a doctor when dealing with something like skin cancer. There was a moment when she was explaining a procedure and had to start again while looking at the script, but other than that I don't think she utilized the script at all (though she did carry it around with her every time she was on stage).
