For a 90’s tween, NYE ‘99 truly felt like the end of the world might be coming. SISTER/FRIEND overlays that feeling of impending apocalypse with other world-enders: the loss of childhood that comes with a dawning awareness of your sexuality and the fallibility of your parents, and of course every fight with your BFF. Inserting Tess, a sheltered outsider raised to wait for the End of Days, elevates this play to something more than (super-fun, deeply satisfying) 90’s nostalgia. As the target audience for this play—an elder millennial obsessed with cults—I couldn’t stop reading.
For a 90’s tween, NYE ‘99 truly felt like the end of the world might be coming. SISTER/FRIEND overlays that feeling of impending apocalypse with other world-enders: the loss of childhood that comes with a dawning awareness of your sexuality and the fallibility of your parents, and of course every fight with your BFF. Inserting Tess, a sheltered outsider raised to wait for the End of Days, elevates this play to something more than (super-fun, deeply satisfying) 90’s nostalgia. As the target audience for this play—an elder millennial obsessed with cults—I couldn’t stop reading.