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‘Choice’ Review: Winnie Holzman’s Play Deals With Life’s Big Decisions — Including Abortion
Ilana Levin and Caitlin Kinnunen star in Winnie Holzman’s provocative but imperfect play about abortion.
At the center of “Choice” is Zipporah “Zippy” Zunder (Ilana Levine), a journalist in her late 50s who is writing a Vanity Fair article about a famous film producer who believes that the souls of the aborted are re-incarnated into children who are born months later. Adding a further, surreal element to the story is the arrival of Hunter Rush (Jake Cannavale), a young writer who desperately seeks to be Zippy’s research assistant — and who is about the same age of the child she would have born. But in this production, staged by the theater’s artistic director Sarah Rasmussen, the calibrations are off in a script that needs focus, especially in sorting out the play’s ambiguities, symbols and cosmic musings, which threaten to overwhelm the story.
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