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“A real strength of the play is how people’s allegiances are constantly shifting.”
The plot has a classic premise for yelling: three estranged siblings reunite to clean out their dead dad’s house ahead of an auction. Same as Tennessee Williams and Tracy Letts before him, Jacobs-Jenkins, whose play premiered Off Broadway in 2013, uses family conflict to illuminate each family member’s personality and connected history: Franz (Michael Esper) is the youngest child and a fuckup who hasn’t been around, Toni ( Sarah Paulson) is the oldest sister whose difficult life makes her start difficult conflicts, and Corey Stoll’s Bo — the classic middle child and New York dad, attempting to get through the week without losing too much money. At the very end, he delivers a seismic shock of a monologue, bursting with resentment over how he, a white man, feels brought down by a world that hates his obvious privilege.
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