If the thread of the story is thus left somewhat frayed, well, narrative coherence was never the play’s top concern anyway. The tumble of ideas and images and outrage was. This turns out to be a perfect match for the material, and has been pulled off so glitchlessly as to suggest new directions for streaming theater in general. We may not comprehend all the words or ideas, but we get the full terror of beings, however divine, spooked by change. That they are played by Patti LuPone, Nikki M. James, Linda Emond and Daphne Rubin-Vega, at their most stentorian, is a bonus, suggesting that heaven may yet be a theater-lover’s paradise.

Source: New York Times October 09, 2020 19:17 UTC