I loved the fact that, at the end of this piece, I felt that I had this extremely complex and nuanced impressionistic portrait of these four women's friendship. Villanueva looks at Anisa, Bethanie, Carolynn, and Danielle from a variety of angles and refracts their interactions through examinations of female friendship, mental health, assault, identity formation, body image, and adult self-actualization. The malleable chronology illuminated rather than obscured new dimensions to various connections within the friend group, and I appreciated the presence of maleness being represented by one...
I loved the fact that, at the end of this piece, I felt that I had this extremely complex and nuanced impressionistic portrait of these four women's friendship. Villanueva looks at Anisa, Bethanie, Carolynn, and Danielle from a variety of angles and refracts their interactions through examinations of female friendship, mental health, assault, identity formation, body image, and adult self-actualization. The malleable chronology illuminated rather than obscured new dimensions to various connections within the friend group, and I appreciated the presence of maleness being represented by one actor. I'm eager to see how this lives and breathes onstage!