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The Two of You "Under Margarett Perry's always-dynamic direction, their three perspectives on 'blood and belonging' repeatedly unfold, preen, spar, change direction, change themselves. As the emotional stakes increase, there's barely chance to catch one's breath - especially since the play's momentum is propelled by that signature dykstravagant love of language. Lots of it, delivered by thinking characters whose mouths move as fast as their minds. Lest this sound overwhelming, be assured it's also very clever, very funny, and tenderly human - this is a love story that has to reinvent itself." |
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"The Two of You touches the heart and the mind. It makes you rethink cliches about love and even more those about the theater." |
"I'm tempted to call The Two of You, Brian Dykstra's new play at the Kitchen, a meta-theatrical romantic comedy, but that is an inadequate description for the zany, delightful flight that takes place from moment to vertiginous moment. On one level, The Two of You is a glorious play about creating plays, about how all the technical issues encountered in writing the script collide with the growing reality of these fictional beings who absurdly begin acting as if they are actually flesh and blood; as if what happens to them really matters. On another level it is about the terror that lurks in the very sinew of our closest relationships, that wounded place where we fear we no longer matter, aren't sexy or challenging enough for our lover, or even worse, wonder if they feel they gave something important up to stay with us. That they live in that illogical, bitter, frozen land of regret. Such a tricky journey desires a strong yet delicate hand, which director Margarett Perry provides along with a crackerjack design team." |
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"See "The Two of You" with a friend and you'll be talking about it for a long time." |
