Finally, we know what happened to Amelia Earhart!

Or do we…?

Hanna presents a wonderfully imaginative microcosm in the least likely yet somehow most oddly logical of places. But as with any mystery, all is not what it seems. Even the comic absurdity has surprising depth and an effective, resonant twist. As an added bonus, any festival scenic designer would kill to do this play! Trompe-l'œil, people! It’s a wild, imaginative ride - and at least we know what we WANT to have happened!

Two men try to uphold the patriarchy despite being trapped in the belly of a whale? What's not to love in Ava Love Hanna's sendup of masculinity, Jonah, early aviation, Pinocchio (?) and probably 10 or 12 other things. Very funny and all too real.

No one knows what happened to Amelia Earhart after her plane disappeared over the waves of the Pacific Ocean, so we have no reason to doubt the veracity of this short, absurdist, historical docudrama. Ava Love Hannah’s deft takedown of masculine entitlement and the “sanctity” of all-male spaces is sure to leave you laughing. If you see just one “female historical icon trapped in the belly of a whale as a metaphor for the destructive nature of the patriarchy” play this year, let it be this one.