Moxie 4/27 performance
The play was weird! A man, his wife, and a hat. He puts on this hat, gets a goofy expression on his face, dances around. His wife doesn't have a hat, is jealous of it, takes it when she leaves him. The walls talk (and words project). Everyone has a Russian accent, even the wall of truth Greek chorus. In the beginning, a young woman sits at a table, apart. She becomes the main focus as you learn she is the daughter of this couple, who are Jewish, because there's a Golem (a creature that is kind of like the undead). The daughter gets ready to be married and trouble starts in a Freudian twist. She doesn't think she'll ever love anyone and that she's doing her fiance a disservice. Her father's best friend is a jolly guy, has lots of kids, tells the audience that if kids don't get love, they float away. Well, the man's wife leaves him in charge of her one day and he sets her down and darned if she doesn't float away. The funny bit was that when she starts feeling doubts about marrying, her fiance gets dizzy and has to keep his backpack on to stay grounded. Later scenes show him wearing an iron, weights, etc. to keep from floating away and his physical comedy was the best.
Well, the play resolves itself when the man's wife comes back, he makes her a hat (did I tell you he's a hat maker?) and she hears the music and does the dance he does when he's wearing his hat. The Golem takes her away and she is dead, but at least she finally got to hear the music. I feel like she did, not every having her name spoken (he forgets it, and has put it in a jar, which he later opens and there is her name. Very sweet). Made me cry. One woman was seeing the play for the third time.
Well, the play resolves itself when the man's wife comes back, he makes her a hat (did I tell you he's a hat maker?) and she hears the music and does the dance he does when he's wearing his hat. The Golem takes her away and she is dead, but at least she finally got to hear the music. I feel like she did, not every having her name spoken (he forgets it, and has put it in a jar, which he later opens and there is her name. Very sweet). Made me cry. One woman was seeing the play for the third time.