Broadway star Ben Platt is superb in this intimate queer musical with an existential twist
8 / 10
As the show drops increasingly heavy hints that we’re watching a revue that may not necessarily be taking place on the corporeal plane, its meta-theatricality and fourth-wall-breaking cleverness sometimes gets in its own way. The convoluted framing risks pulling focus from the stingingly bittersweet heft of its core story. Thankfully, Cromer never loses sight of this, keeping intimacy, self-doubt and regret central as Trevor wanders around us. It’s as slippery, tricky and romantic as a painful memory.
