Very Real and Personal
by Lisa McKeown
@lisammckeown
David Mamet once wrote that it’s in our nature to dramatize things as impersonal as the weather, in order to understand its personal meaning to us as the protagonist of the individual drama we understand our life to be. This show is about a snowstorm – but it’s also about much more than that. It is about the havoc this blizzard wreaks on the lives of six young women struggling to find their place in what often feels to be a cold and disconnected world. As the characters attempt to get to an audition, a memorial service, and eventually a party, we’re given updates on the storm’s effects by a television reporter, making the storm less metaphorical and more concrete as we see the citizens who pass by, searching for what they’ve lost, both literally and figuratively.
