Equal parts engrossing and unsettling (in the best possible way), this play offers a deliberately incomplete portrait of a single day of national horror and all the dreadful days that followed. It is mercifully non prescriptive and the richer for the gaps and inconsistencies that the viewer must try to fill and decipher. It even manages the feat of humanizing a bigot without justifying or rationalizing her bigotry. All in all a surprisingly complex, nearly sprawling work presented in a spare, tight frame.
Equal parts engrossing and unsettling (in the best possible way), this play offers a deliberately incomplete portrait of a single day of national horror and all the dreadful days that followed. It is mercifully non prescriptive and the richer for the gaps and inconsistencies that the viewer must try to fill and decipher. It even manages the feat of humanizing a bigot without justifying or rationalizing her bigotry. All in all a surprisingly complex, nearly sprawling work presented in a spare, tight frame.