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Rachel Bondss writing inJonahis at its best when characters are describing their fantasies.
calf muscle and then all of a sudden or, or, or my desk lamp!
Sort of looks like a boob and then or!
Is one more real than the others?
Whats a memory and whats an invention?
Can fantasy, given enough investment, overtake reality?
Beans, when shes with Oliverass Jonah, gives Ana the confidence of space.
When shes with Levines Danny, however, Beans recedes into herself.
With Zdrojeskis Steven, shes hardened like a diamond.
BondssetsJonahwithin a series of bedrooms, all represented by the same set by Wilson Chin.
Another theme buried withinJonahis how our repressed memories are most likely to come up in generic liminal spaces.
Perhaps there was also the disappointment of knowing that what wed seen would be sorted into real and imaginary.
It can be much richer to live in uncertainty.
Jonahis at the Laura Pels Theatre.
WhereJonahis intentionally twisty,The White Chipis remarkably straight down the middle.
There is a bit of possible confusion here.
Though this is presented as a confession, the real story is not Tappers but playwright Sean Danielss.
(A man exiting the theater alongside me was surprised when his friend told him this.)
The cruelty of the disease can lie in its mundanity.
But in theater, familiarity is dangerous.
There, at least,The White Chiphas the advantage of its comedy.
The White Chipis at the Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater in the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space.
