A comedy of menace in a Detroit state of mind at Coal Mine Theatre
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The play takes place, as script puts it, in “not necessarily Detroit”; we could be in two adjacent backyards in any first-ring suburb of any second-tier city. I suppose you could say it is set in a Detroit state of mind.Mary and Ben are proud homeowners. She’s a paralegal and he’s just been laid off by the bank he used to work for – but is starting his own business as a financial advisor while on severance.
In truth, however, Mary and Ben aren’t quite as responsible or stable as they would like to appear – and have their own unacknowledged addictions and secrets. As the two couples become friendlier and friendlier, it starts to seem less like Mary and Ben will help lift their neighbours up and more likely that Sharon and Kenny might pull them down.The female characters really drive the show.
Her Sharon may initially seem more like a hipster than the “drug addict” and “white trash” she describes herself as – but that’s mostly due to Melanie McNeill’s slightly off costuming and a short chic hairdo the actress wouldn’t have had time to change. Once you get past appearances, she fully inhabits this character that feels like a contemporary, American version of one of the interlopers in Harold Pinter’s classic comedies of menace.
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