Yesterday Reimagined

Phoenix Productions—John Hirsch Mainstage

A show that asks the brave question, what would my life be like if I didn’t marry a right wing, misogynistic caricature. The answer? Better.

The actors do a good job with a script that could have done with more work. Ultimately a minor portion of the plot but something that stuck out pretty badly for me personally was the way liberal bonafides were established for one of the characters, we learn that she cares a lot about The Causes, she likes Social Justice of a completely unspecified persuasion. Oh, and she also wishes she could have been a teacher for the under privileged inner city kids! Lacking depth, there really wasn’t much to dig into, but the audience definitely had fun watching the right winger say increasingly audaciously abusive things.

Josh Fidelak