I had the pleasure of attending a dress rehearsal of Alaina’s new show at Playwrights Horizon last night and it is excellent. Sure, I give all her shows great reviews (she is the Production Stage Manager) but it’s only because she works on great projects! This show takes place over six weeks in an acting class in rural Vermont and features five extremely talented actors playing five unsuccessful actors searching for their role in life. Yeah, it’s meta… The characters all face serious emotional baggage and end up tearing each other down. It is heartbreaking on some levels, inspiring on others, and shifts between awkwardness and hilarity. I was squirming in my seat at times and falling out laughing at others. It is a play about all of us and our struggles to give our life meaning and purpose and the thin line we walk between happiness and despair. Sitting in the front row, I was constantly catching a glimpse of myself in the giant mirror and considering my own role as a performer in this great theatrical production we call life.
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