A Woman Among Women: A Female All My Sons Without the Tragedy
5 / 10
A program note says that the play asks what it means to inhabit a role within a community and to define oneself against or within expectations of others. It’s a vague notion and director Sarah Cameron Hughes’ staging doesn’t help to clarify the point of spending so much time on unrelated activity. The playing space – in the round with audience members seated along the periphery – offers no sense of time or place. The play begins as the actors enter from all sides setting up lawn chairs alongside the seated audience members. If intended to create a communal effect with the audience, it mostly causes confusion. And unlike in All My Sons, most of Jonas’ characters are peripheral to the story.
