Carey Crim's play 'Never Not Once' asks what happens when a crime of the past resurfaces in the present.
“South Park"-style geek theater comes to the Geffen Playhouse with the world premiere of Qui Nguyen’s “Revenge Song: A Vampire Cowboys Creation.”
For an issue-oriented play, these characters and their story lines are rendered for the most part with believable humanity and specificity. As the caring and committed Allison and Nadine, Cruz and Baxter illuminate the realistic limits and conflicts inevitable in any relationship — particularly when it comes to concealed truths. Their back stories about hard-won social acceptance add further dramatic weight.
Cruz’s haunted Allison offers poignant insight into the reasons why someone would keep silent about a sexual assault. For Eleanor, the discovery of her origins has an equally devastating impact on her self-worth; one of the play’s best aspects is the shifted focus from rape survivor to collaterally damaged offspring. Eleanor’s boyfriend provides a sympathetic male perspective and woke moral outrage, though he has little else to do in an underwritten role.
While Polak brings commendable depth and vulnerability to Doug’s struggle with his past, this is not an abstract meditation on he said/she said ambiguity. His culpability is never really in doubt. The question is what to do about it 20 years after the fact.2 and 7 p.m. Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sunday; through Feb. 23
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