Loved seeing this on Zoom early in the pandemic as part of Pittsburgh Public Theater's PlayTime Series. A great play for actors, great dialogue, moving and funny.

When sisters reunite to honor their dead sister, Colleen, deep-seated resentments and guilt surface from these wonderfully created, uniquely human characters. Colleen manifests into a hurricane which physically and emotionally shakes the characters to theirs cores, forcing them to closely examine their lives, their relationships, and their losses. Ryan beautifully, and almost magically, inserts Florida wildlife into this struggle, and connects humanity to the earth.

There's so much to love about a Tammy Ryan play, the theatricality, the sharp injections of humor, the use of physicality, surprise, sight, and sound. But what I love most of all is the way they sneak up on you: you're just listening to casual conversation, but there's an edge to it, but you're sucked in, lulled, and then all hell breaks loose. The Wake excels at all of this.