Catherine Trieschmann

A strange play, where a young girl with a crooked back who comes from a broken family meets a young girl who is overweight who comes from a Christian family. Salvation ensues...or does it? The play pits the young Christian against a secular mother, and the daughter feels caught in between, so she decides to do what she can to distress her mother. Things come to a head when secrets are revealed and lies are told; the ending is...peculiar. It is disturbing, but that isn't what lost it half a star. It feels unfinished, not in the way that is a good, satisfying non-ending to a play, but in the way that feels like the writer just hit a roadblock and said, "I'll come back tomorrow and finish that"...and then tomorrow forgot to come back and finish, and instead submitted the work and someone picked it up. Non-ending endings can be sublime; this one is just unfinished.… (mehr)