| THE WELKIN Last Night |
| Posted by: sergius 08:15 am EDT 05/26/24 |
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| THE WELKIN misses no chance to tell us what we know. It’s admirably ambitious and thematically expansive, but the play’s events are routinely undercut by the playwright’s tendency to explain what we’re seeing. Twelve women—yes, twelve angry women—are gathered to determine whether a young woman accused of murder may live because she’s pregnant. It’s 1759 in England and early pregnancies are harder to discern. But it’s never really 1759–or never just—and this is where the play loses traction. Its many anachronisms serve more as contemporizing footnotes that wink at the audience rather than enhance the story. In this regard, THE WELKIN seems more like a paper than a play; it’s bogged down by didacticism. The large cast (uniformly good) is packed onto the relatively small Atlantic stage, but it's a very crowded lectern. |
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