Interesting Show
One of the new playwrights on the New York scene is Zakiyya Alexander, the author of “10 Things to Do Before I Die”. According to this reviewer, the show isn’t all that great, because the characters just like to talk about themselves and it’s not completely consistent with the difficulties that they are having in their lives. They are completely different characters, with opposite problems. And yet they can somehow blame these problems on their father. The men in the play aren’t made to be particularly sympathetic. At the same time, other reviewers rather like this skewing of the normal lines of narrative and characterization. Characters that claim that their problems are one thing but are actually something else. It’s more about what people do and what they say they do and whether those can jive in any way.
