A 16-year-old, Mal, hosts a series of rowdy sleepovers in an eerie hangout dramedy. The play begins with Mal reading cautionary pages addressed to her nosy-but-solicitous father, establishing a sense of surveillance and dread. Once the action starts, grown-ups never appear onstage, but their presence is felt through offstage fighting and other unsettling sounds. Mal’s friends suspect parental hostility, fear adults, and avoid tasks that might bring them into adult spaces. The group later confronts sexual menace tied to a father’s work buddy. The naturalistic style blends adolescent intensity with alienation, supported by loose, swaggering realism and a standout cast.
"Her naturalistic dramatic voice a still-sticky adolescent mixture of wild feeling and zoned-out alienation comes into better focus here, thanks to the loose, swaggering realism generated by the director, Chloe Claudel. The cast's a miracle. I last saw Yoo on a New York stage in John Proctor Is the Villain on Broadway she played Raelynn, a preacher's daughter who laughs her way into an uninhibited moment of sisterhood. As Mal, she's slipperier, a possibly depr"
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