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  • Ky Weeks: People Should Talk About What's Real

    The characters in this play show themselves in ways that are interesting as well as unexpected. There's a contrast in how people present online, overspilling tons of personal information and deep feelings in carefully curated doses, revealing everything and nothing, while also struggling to communicate wants and desires with those closest. Hartley-Kong uses the emotionally draining nature of the pandemic to present people who are just going through a whole lot, and their flaws and feelings come out in ways that are just a whole lot... which, for this play, is so very fitting.

    The characters in this play show themselves in ways that are interesting as well as unexpected. There's a contrast in how people present online, overspilling tons of personal information and deep feelings in carefully curated doses, revealing everything and nothing, while also struggling to communicate wants and desires with those closest. Hartley-Kong uses the emotionally draining nature of the pandemic to present people who are just going through a whole lot, and their flaws and feelings come out in ways that are just a whole lot... which, for this play, is so very fitting.