The delightfully whimsical mess and chaos and violence and pain present within this play is infectious. Every shocking act that occurs feels so honest and real that it might be easy to forget how wild they are, except Collier doesn't let us forget. The way the young main characters interact with the space around them and exist as the fullest, angriest, most unhinged versions of themselves despite the Adult's attempts to stop them are so true of childhood... until they themselves become the Adults. A pure feast of images and ideas.
The delightfully whimsical mess and chaos and violence and pain present within this play is infectious. Every shocking act that occurs feels so honest and real that it might be easy to forget how wild they are, except Collier doesn't let us forget. The way the young main characters interact with the space around them and exist as the fullest, angriest, most unhinged versions of themselves despite the Adult's attempts to stop them are so true of childhood... until they themselves become the Adults. A pure feast of images and ideas.