Songs of the Dragon Flying To Heaven @ Studio

This play was terrible. I am tempted to leave it at that but bad manifests itself in different ways so let me elaborate. The Importance of Being Ernest was bad because the actors were not very good. The director's choice to have opposite gender actors play all the characters made it far worse mainly because the actors were not able to pull it off. I suppose it is possible that if they were better, this choice wold not have been so bad. In Songs, I think the root problem is the script. The actors were mostly superb, in that they all seemed like real people in a shockingly odd situation. The play made me bored, confused, and yes uncomfortable throughout. Bored, as I was looking at my watch waiting for it to end, and was not not engaged enough with anything going on to take an interest. Confused because of the absence of any recognizable plot, and the placement of jarring characters and themes together. Uncomfortable because of the excessive length of certain gimmicks, and my empathy for everyone else in the theatre having to sit through it. I think I can say with certainty that the points made about being a minority in white America were not the source of my discomfort. In fact, I think if the playwright built more upon this theme it would have been a better piece. Reviews I have read give it far more stature than I.