Two Girls Off-Broadway Reviews

Late in the hour, Smith begins to discuss issues she’s having with her own body, now, as an adult. How does a woman come to be “squeamish about body stuff”? The conversation suddenly shifts: There are suddenly too many answers for just two girl...

Late in the hour, Smith begins to discuss issues she’s having with her own body, now, as an adult. How does a woman come to be “squeamish about body stuff”? The conversation suddenly shifts: There are suddenly too many answers for just two girls to give.

But Two Girls more interestingly evolves into a moving meditation on what it means to inhabit a body. I wish Smith had turned the focus more squarely on her own experience of that question, but she uses this unlikely cultural moment to explore broade...

But Two Girls more interestingly evolves into a moving meditation on what it means to inhabit a body. I wish Smith had turned the focus more squarely on her own experience of that question, but she uses this unlikely cultural moment to explore broader topics surrounding womanhood, health, and women’s relationships to their bodies.

In its final moments, Two Girls makes an unexpected pivot that reframes the play’s tension around the question of voyeurism. And until this moment comes along, it may not have occurred to you that the women who actually performed 2 Girls 1 Cup have...

In its final moments, Two Girls makes an unexpected pivot that reframes the play’s tension around the question of voyeurism. And until this moment comes along, it may not have occurred to you that the women who actually performed 2 Girls 1 Cup have scarcely, in all of this deep dissection, been mentioned at all.

On the one hand, the way it splits the verbatim audio from the physical presence in the room with us circles back to the illusion of verbatim theater, circles back to the question of what it means to live in a body. On the other, it punctures the ten...

On the one hand, the way it splits the verbatim audio from the physical presence in the room with us circles back to the illusion of verbatim theater, circles back to the question of what it means to live in a body. On the other, it punctures the tense intimacy of the piece. It’s a distraction–but also a distraction that I keep poking at in my mind like a tongue drawn to a sore tooth. Two Girls feels unsettled, trailing off into its ambiguous ending, but it’s unsettling all the same.