Divorce Club

TBA Productions—John Hirsch Mainstage

TBA Productions offered up a scenario primed for camp and dry wit, but unfortunately didn’t quite hit the mark. A club of divorced women who meet to throw darts at photos of their ex-husbands and drink cheap wine are thrown curveball after curveball when a new member joins their ranks. All I wish is that they had leaned harder into the absurd. So many possibilities for humor fell flat in the face of commitment from the cast, or potentially poor directorial choices. Despite questionable and irrelevant character choices, and 2×4 acting, this piece had the potential to be a fun, absurdist comedy. I wish I could say it was.

Arden Pruden