Ken Weitzman’s ARRANGEMENTS is both genuinely funny and truly sad. Weitzman’s characters, from Robby, the trusting college dropout, to Donna, the wounded schemer suffering from the rare mental disorder pica (where you eat everything in sight), are larger than life, and also uniquely human. In this way, Weitzman’s portraits of people hurting deftly zoom into fine details (erotic fixations with candy bars, differentiation between flower arrangements, etc.) while simultaneously composing several complete and fulfilling story arcs. By the end of the play, you feel deeply for these clever...
Ken Weitzman’s ARRANGEMENTS is both genuinely funny and truly sad. Weitzman’s characters, from Robby, the trusting college dropout, to Donna, the wounded schemer suffering from the rare mental disorder pica (where you eat everything in sight), are larger than life, and also uniquely human. In this way, Weitzman’s portraits of people hurting deftly zoom into fine details (erotic fixations with candy bars, differentiation between flower arrangements, etc.) while simultaneously composing several complete and fulfilling story arcs. By the end of the play, you feel deeply for these clever, deceiving, and desperately fallible characters.