Marc Miller takes a look at Here There Are Blueberries at New York Theatre Workshop:
Here There Are Blueberries is surely the right title for this one. It refers to a caption in a photo album, a very special photo album. The phrase evokes a carefree, whimsical quotidian existence, in stark contrast to the unphotographed reality happening close by. Here There Are Blueberries is the latest from Moisés Kaufman, the playwright-historian who often culls stageworks from historical records, such as Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and The Laramie Project. That's the formula for his latest, written in collaboration with Amanda Gronich, a New York Theatre Workshop co-production with Tectonic Theater Project. Honorable as their intentions are, this time the Kaufman formula fails to come to a boil. |
