Sam and I ushered this one together. It is a retelling of the Jon Benet Ramsay story with some added characters (I think) and a surreal setting. Many of the major characters are all given ghoulish motives and the play feels like the shadowed projections of those motives onto a big screen. Sometimes these stories overlap and conflict and do not make a lot of sense from a plot standpoint, but the overall affect is interesting in its successful portrait of the entire situation as being basically a clusterfuck. And if nothing else, it portrays a murky line between how messed up a world a writer can create compared to how messed up the world is we inhabit.
The real standout for me was the young bullied kid, Jon Benet befriends (not sure if he is a character in the real life drama). This show benefits a bit from some reflection as my impression while watching it was not especially favorable. But then I think it may be trying to communicate an ugly tale. I feel like I just ate a tray of eggplant. I suppose its good for me but only in an academic sort of way.
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