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It can feel a little crazed, but theres no mistaking its fierce, embattled sanity.
Youre here to try and help us scream less at people on the phone?
chirps Eva (Megan Hill), a bundle of quivering positivity with terrified eyes and a frozen smile.
Someone keeps mugging me when Im walking around the office!
he crows, I wouldbe curiousto see how [Eva] wouldfeelabout giving me a blow job without reciprocation.
I …feelthat I love blow jobs without reciprocation.
Director Margot Bordelon smartly keeps the play zinging along at a breathless pace.
The nightmarishness of the mens blithe, brutal idiocy is buoyed up by the scripts genuinely weird comic brightness.
Except that eventually youll reach a waterfall, and when you do, youll be covered in blood.
Oh, you know what?
I ate my sister in the uterus!
Eva is the only woman in the office well, almost.
She just wants to see how her daughter is doing.
She knows Sofia must be processing some complicated feelings.
Shes just checking in, saying hi, sending love.
Why wont her daughter call her back?
She also calls not her mother but her father.
Trying to understand him, to empathize with him, to forgive him.
No longer even a little bit of a cartoon.
They would make for a wallop of a double bill.
And like too many of those, the plays violence isnt accidental but incidental.
Its the bloody consequence of what and whom we decide to value.
Do You Feel Anger?is at the Vineyard Theatre through April 20.
