That McDuff is also a vegetarian helps keep the story focused on the burger business as a case study in metastatic ambition. What begins for Pat as a simple case of monetary reparations (“Not payback but back pay,” she says) winds up a quest for commercial domination. Small, clever musicals are fragile things, though, and I don’t want to oversell this one in praising it. “Scotland, PA” still needs to cure a few structural hiccups (the first act seems to end twice) and to address its longueurs and lapses of logic. But the show’s slight case of ambient mildness may be a harder problem to solve, especially in the songs.

Source: New York Times October 24, 2019 01:41 UTC