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Too soft, in fact.
Thats partly because Jarrett wants to have her myth and eat it too.
Daphnes body is violated after all.
Girl just wanted to listen to her music.
These currents of menace, pursuit, and physical violation flow heavy through Jarretts play.
Shes treeifying though, perhaps its only a symbol?
People look at her weird but notnearlyweird enough for whats happening,ifits whats happening.
That veil of vagueness is drawn acrossDaphneas a whole.
She believes their nearest neighbor (Denise Burse) is a witch who is invading her dreams.
Winona is lonely, paranoid, possessive, and full of clawing need.
Phoebus as in Apollo if we didnt already get it.
Its an admirable impulse, but it doesnt quite work.
… Where are all their bodies?)
or, at their most extreme, Winonas nightmares.
Their conversations are pastless, futureless, suspended in an eternal, creepy-quirky present.
How did they find each other?
Why did they come here?
What is the foundation of their love and why should we root (oof, sorry) for it?
A tomes worth of backstory isnt required, but a little sense of fleshed out humanity is.
Were supposed to stick with Daphne and Winona, but their blurry outlines make them difficult to grasp.
And [Pipers body has] completely been ravaged by this parasite and now shes this ravaged walking carcass.
Daphneis suffused with, and is about, specifically female kinds of fear.
But when Piper and Wendy blow into Daphne and Winonas isolated world, they momentarily erase the fog away.
They bring along with them the rich psychological earth thats required to plant even the most surreal of trees.
Daphneis at Lincoln Centers Claire Tow Theater through November 19.
