“ As someone who lives in the same general area where this play is set, I had moments while reading this of feeling my own neighborhood rendered with uncanny authenticity. The action's mostly grounded in this slice-of-life feel, but our protagonist spends enough time ruminating on film and other cultural ephemera that those pieces of their internal world make their way onto the stage in surprising, elegant, and form pushing ways, culminating in a funny, devastating, theatrical portrait of an utterly singular individual, but this play achieves universality in its specificity. I saw more than a little of myself in Mayel. ”