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Agnes BorinskysThe Treestakes the opposite approach.
An extended denouement follows.
when you land the trees, what else takes root?
says Sheila, who is visiting David in Connecticut from Seattle.
Should I call the airline?
They stay put, and eventually friends and not-quite friends arrive.
Charlotte (Becky Yamamoto) brings them supplies from Target while chattering on about her own needs.
So an ad hoc community forms around the human trees, nearly unintentionally.
Sheila amusingly drops away from a conversation she wants to avoid.
Thankfully for the actors, whose stamina I started to worry about, they also sometimes sit on stools.
Things are adorable to the point ofintentionally, I thinkbeing unnerving.
But Sheila and David, especially, treat their potential commercial future with equanimity.
The one act ends not when things are resolved but when they feel suitably diffuse.
What if we dont have to worry about the end of the world because the world has already ended?
Is it possible to metabolize those horrors and still feel serene?
To be still, and yet still productive?
I guess a tree would be pretty good at it.
The Trees, produced by Playwrights Horizons and Page 73,is at Playwrights Horizons through March 19.
