Channeling elements from Edson’s “Wit” and Auburn’s “Proof,” Minigan has created a stunning portrait of a young woman in a race against time to harness her professor’s experience and knowledge as leverage before dementia renders it useless. This time the backdrop is not mathematics, nor metaphysical poetry, but Shakespeare. Kym finds her journey stalled by much more than just Beverly’s cognitive decline: her age, her gender, her race, and the very academic playground where she envisions her future, all seem to bar her progress. This play is a definite page turner, one of Minigan’s finest.
Channeling elements from Edson’s “Wit” and Auburn’s “Proof,” Minigan has created a stunning portrait of a young woman in a race against time to harness her professor’s experience and knowledge as leverage before dementia renders it useless. This time the backdrop is not mathematics, nor metaphysical poetry, but Shakespeare. Kym finds her journey stalled by much more than just Beverly’s cognitive decline: her age, her gender, her race, and the very academic playground where she envisions her future, all seem to bar her progress. This play is a definite page turner, one of Minigan’s finest.