Two Misfits Tell Stories That Reveal and Conceal

There is a scrappy, ragged appeal to this fringe production, executed with the kind of energy and raw talent that tends to outshine our city’s bigger, richer, more cautious theater companies.

Lindsay Erika Crain and Brandon Ryan give themselves completely to the rough-hewn give-and-take of Nigro’s dialogue, which is painfully attuned to the sticky games of revelation and concealment people can play with each other. Crain is fantastic as Tracy, the world-weary orphan with a forked tongue and a dark past. She plays the role just right, part nymph and part demon, avoiding the temptation to overdo the Girl, Interrupted act. As the play progresses, she just becomes stronger, depicting Tracy’s slow-burn disintegration with an edgy subtlety as immediate as it is haunting. Equally good is Ryan as the long-suffering, infinitely understanding Ben, the writer whose life is turned upside down and inside out by the appearance of this (to him) fascinatingly bent woman.

Read the rest at Seattle Weekly

Also see:

Seattle P-I (one of three shows in the review – scroll down)

An audience member review at Seattle Performs

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