Posted: 11/12/23 at 9:40pm
Have seen almost no buzz about this, has anyone seen it or planning to? Saw it tonight and I found it engaging, charming, and often funny, and occasionally with something interesting to say. Andrew Burnap is just a ridiculously likeable performer (which the show itself explicitly called out a couple of times) and he and Marin Ireland make an appealing foundation to build the show around. Spoilers about the ending below:
Like I said, the play had some interesting ideas and a couple of lines that really stuck with me (I found the exchange about not understanding a Latin mass but knowing you were hearing something powerful to be particularly evocative). But good lord, that ending landed with a THUD. It basically abandoned the story they were telling to hit you over the head with "and this is still happening get it get it??" That scene just dragged on and on for no real payoff, and it was clear they lost the audience - I've never seen so few people give a standing ovation for what were overall uniformly excellent performances. I hope they rework that final scene, because right now it feels like the author got stuck with how to end it and gave up.
